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With the ROC the Riverway waterfront revitalization initiative well underway, the city of Rochester now is seeking a consultant to provide preliminary design services for transformation of the Erie Canal aqueduct on Broad Street. The aqueduct once carried the Erie ...

Frontier Airlines will add nonstop service from Rochester to Miami International Airport beginning Nov. 4. The route will be offered once a day on Thursdays and Sundays out of Rochester and Miami. Departure and arrival times have not been announced. ...

When he arrived in Rochester in December of 1995, hired by WXXI Public Broadcasting Council to run its radio and television operations, Norm Silverstein assumed there would be a very finite timeline to his stay. A New Jersey native who ...

Two Rochester not-for-profit organizations have received grants from Enterprise Community Partners to support efforts intended to uproot the barriers to fair, equitable and healthy housing that exist due to historic and systemic racism. Enterprise Community Partners issued $2.9 million in ...

Applications are now being accepted from organizations wishing to participate in the Greater Rochester Quality Council’s Day of Quality. Modeled after the United Way’s Day of Caring, the Day of Quality initiative matches organizations with professionals for a one-day session ...

As cases of COVID-19 again rise at an alarming rate, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged businesses to allow only vaccinated patrons to enter. “I am asking them, go to vaccine-only admission,” Cuomo said in an update on Monday. “I ...

The Monroe County/Rochester Emergency Rental Assistance Program (EPPI 2.0) has distributed more than $10 million in funding to keep residents in their home. Federal stimulus legislation is funding the program. Monroe County was allotted $16 million and the city of ...

Rochester Institute of Technology’s Saunders College of Business will use a grant of up to $500,000 to establish an online life sciences executive MBA entrepreneurship program. The grant from Empire State Development enables creation of the new degree through a ...

Which space could become the home office, can more cash be accessed if the bidding takes off and are you willing to accommodate post-sale needs of the seller have become common topics of discussions between homebuyer and Realtor as the ...

No one ever likes to see their tax assessment arrive in the mail, and in the weeks that follow the arrival, commercial property owners often end up using the court system in an attempt to lower their bill.

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The most recent post on the Carmine’s Family Restaurant Facebook page was about Cruise Night, encouraging patrons to stop by on July 19 to admire the classic cars and “remember the good old days.” For Carmine’s customers and employees, memories ...

For the first time in the 76-year history of Isaac Heating & Air Conditioning, an Isaac is not the president of the firm. Eric Knaak, who has been with Isaac for 32 years, was promoted to president of the residential and ...

Amazon’s new warehouse and distribution center in Gates was the nation’s third-largest non-residential building project to break ground in June, according to Dodge Data & Analytics. The $412 million project on a 100-acre site at 2600 Manitou Road includes a ...

SWBR has been recognized in the Zweig Group annual awards, winning a 2021 Marketing Excellence Award in the website category for its in-house “The Hub.” The awards honor “outstanding and effective marketing” in the architecture, engineering and consulting industry. The “Hub” ...

L2P Westside, a lease-to-purchase affordable housing development by the Urban League of Rochester Economic Development Corp., is nearly ready for occupancy. Following a model created by Cleveland-based nonprofit CHN Housing Partners, the 41 single-family houses in Rochester’s southwest quadrant will ...