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The transformation of Rochester’s Inner Loop has been recognized for design and architectural excellence. Stantec is one of four firms across the state recognized in the transportation category with the Diamond Award, the highest honor from the ACEC. The National ...

There has always been something special about the corporate suite at a sporting event. Often built high atop a stadium or arena and almost always encapsulated on a by-permission-only floor of their own, corporate suites screamed exclusivity. Those who dined ...

Plastic grocery bags now have value in the form of a free Amerks hockey ticket, but only if the bags are recycled. Persons who bring a plastic bag, or other recyclable item, to the Monroe County Ecopark on April 4, ...

Rich Klein has been promoted to president of ConServe, the locally based collections specialist. A graduate of St. John Fisher College and the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School, Klein had been chief financial officer at the firm. Klein was ...

Average monthly rent for apartments in Rochester remains the lowest among New York’s three largest upstate cities and grew more slowly than the national average, according to report released today by RentCafe. Average rent in Rochester was $985 in March, ...

Two area hospitals, as well as three other area health care providers, have earned “LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader” status from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Strong Memorial Hospital and UR Medicine Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua, along with HCR Home Care, ...

When Adam Olschewske launched his home renovation business on Jan. 1, 2000, he wasn’t worried about any potential Y2K chaos. “I didn’t even have a computer,” he said. He had a toolbox, work clothes and a pickup truck. Have hammer, ...

When Lifespan lined up former college and NBA star Bill Walton to be the guest speaker for the 22nd annual Celebration of Aging, they found the perfect spokesman. He celebrates aging every day, and night. At age 65, the Basketball ...

Eight members of the Builders Exchange of Rochester received  Lifetime Achievement Awards while 14 local craftsmen were recognized for their superior work over the past year. The honors were announced at a reception on March 24 at Locust Hill Country ...

  For Kenyatta Jones, the City of Rochester’s REJob training program is truly a game-changer. Make that a life-changer. For the last eight weeks, a group of 25 program participants were given a crash course in the environmental construction industry. ...

From the folks who brought you a trash plate in a cup and fried mashed potato balls comes the latest Frontier Field food concoction: Chicken in a waffle cone. While it’s not likely to make the top-5 list of healthy foods ...

Don’t let the “garden” part of the annual Rochester Home & Garden Show fool you. You’re not finding many flowers at this weekend’s event at the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center, although you will be able to sip ...

Beer of all things will help reduce the cost of operating Capelli Sport Stadium for the city of Rochester under terms of a modified lease with the Rochester Rhinos. City officials withdrew eviction demands after the Rhinos agreed this morning ...

Upstate New York is a popular place for millennials to buy houses, according to a national survey by online lender Lending Tree. For home buyers 35 and under, Rochester ranks 16th among the nation’s 100 largest cities for home mortgage ...

A 90-minute conference in the chambers of State Supreme Court Justice Daniel J. Doyle Wednesday morning did not produce a settlement in the Rochester Rhinos’ stadium-use dispute with the City of Rochester. As a result, the parties will return again ...