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Have you always wanted to own property on Lake Ontario? You may have the chance, thanks to the State of New York. The New York State Department of Transportation will put up for auction on Thursday (Dec. 7) a residential ...

The Urban League of Rochester’s Project Ready Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts/Agriculture and Math (STEAM) program will receive a $20,000 grant from Spectrum. Project Ready STEAM is a high school to college transition program for minority and disadvantaged youth in grades ...

Unable to raise $1.3 million in revenue by their self-imposed Nov. 30 deadline, the Rochester Rhinos say they will take a one-year hiatus from play in United Soccer League. During the year off, the Rhinos will re-evaluate their revenue sources ...

Gary W. Passero was named winner of the Allan D. Moore Lifetime Achievement Award at the Rochester area chapter of the New York State Commercial Association of Realtors’ annual banquet earlier this month. The award recognizes Passero’s work, personal commitment, dedication ...

The Rochester Red Wings have been told they will no longer operate the Batavia Muckdogs of the New York-Penn League. As a result, the future of the Muckdogs franchise in Batavia is unclear. League president Ben Hayes would not comment ...

Launch Team Inc., has acquired One Down Consulting Group, strengthening customer sales channels for the Rochester-based marketing company. Launch Team will provide full sales funnel management, including sales and marketing consulting, customer relationship management implementation, integrated marketing and sales process ...

When Jim Taylor first proposed his idea for development of a former Frontier Communications building and the surrounding plot of land along Whitney Road, town leaders in Perinton weren’t impressed. His company—Taylor, The Builders—envisioned a retail plaza as well as ...

Developers for Carlson Park Business Center, Charlotte Square Apartments and the Bevier Memorial Building received award-of-excellence recognition from the Upstate New York chapter of NAIOP The Commercial Real Estate Association. The work at The Metropolitan, St. John Fisher College chapel ...

Karen Higman will oversee a new nonprofit services initiative of The Martin Group to unite branding, awareness and fundraising strategies for area nonprofits. “Our firm’s branding of nonprofits will now be strengthened by a new focus on developing strategic fundraising ...

Construction on Upstate New York’s first TITLE Boxing Club, a boutique fitness franchise, is underway in Pittsford Square. The boxing club, filling 2,300 square feet of plaza space at 3240 Monroe Ave., is scheduled to open in early January. TITLE ...

Next month’s International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship, featuring future stars of the National Hockey League, will have an estimated economic impact of $6 million in the Buffalo area. Monroe County won’t be shut out of visitor spending, however, ...

  You read Pete Giovenco’s request to the 400-plus employees of Bergmann in his quarterly in-house newsletter and you don’t envision the warm smile, the down-to-earth demeanor and the raised-by-Italian-immigrants work ethic he possesses. You also don’t see someone who ...

With just over a week to go for the Rochester Rhinos to save their 2018 soccer season, efforts to raise $1.3 million in new sponsorship and ticket revenue probably are closer to Black Monday depression than Black Friday mania. Rhinos owners ...

Steven Metzger has been named chief operating officer at Labella Associates, the Rochester-based architecture and engineering firm. In his new position, Metzger will focus on the company infrastructure and information technology development, as well as expanding the LaBella footprint. LaBella Associates ...

General Code LLC, a Rochester born-and-raised company, has been sold to International Code Council, but the name won’t change and the office and the 113 employees aren’t going anywhere. The firm officially joined the International Code Council family on Wednesday. ...