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It’s never to early to start down the path to entrepreneurial creativity. Kids ages 10 to 13 have a chance to learn the basics about starting a business at the annual Biz Kid$ Camp, an endeavor sponsored by the City ...

Confidence in the future of the construction industry is strong among contractors, according to The Bonadio Group’s 14th annual Upstate New York Contractors State of the Industry Survey. Of 48 firms participating in the survey, 77 percent were slightly or ...

Are you interested in perhaps saving money or time for your business, church, school or nonprofit organization? Then the Greater Rochester Quality Council (GRQC), an affiliate of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, may have a program for you. And it’s free. ...

The Corn Hill Arts Festival is letting the musical group Inside Out take visitors back to 1969 when they take center stage for the featured performance at this year’s golden anniversary celebration. Inside Out headlines the festival’s extensive free music ...

Rick Schiffhauer’s first foray into the world of sporting goods came in the late 1990s, when he dabbled in selling discontinued Mizuno softball bats out his Rochester Athletic Club office. He’d buy them in bulk for $50 a bat and ...

A Morgan Management project is back in motion in the Syracuse suburb of Fayetteville, a month after the village board of trustees suspended action on the endeavor because of a federal indictment involving executives from the real estate development company. ...

The City of Rochester will part ways with arena manager SMG, seemingly clearing the way for Pegula Sports and Entertainment to take over operations if the Buffalo-based sports empire so desires. SMG, and/or an earlier variation thereof, has managed Blue Cross ...

Tom Gears’ introduction to architecture didn’t come from a textbook or career fair—it came from television. He was intrigued by the work of Mike Brady, the fictional father on “The Brady Bunch.” Something about having a home office and wearing ...

The last time Mark Juliano left the ritzy extravagance of a casino empire to operate a more low-key gaming center, he hit the jackpot. The year was 2014 and Juliano transferred within the Las Vegas Sands Corp., relocating from Marina ...

An LGBTQ-friendly apartment complex and adjoining pharmacy and a 101-unit apartment building that will also feature retail space are one step closer to becoming the next parts of the Inner Loop East Transformation Project. Rochester Mayor Lovely A. Warren announced that ...

The Pike Company Inc., one of the largest construction management firms in the Northeast, is now even larger. Pike acquired JT Vaeth Construction of Buffalo on Tuesday and BCI Construction LLC of Albany on Wednesday. The acquisitions were announced this ...

Let’s say it has been your dream for the past decade to build your own house, so over the years you’ve diligently saved a budgeted amount of money every month. You now have enough in the bank for a tidy ...

The conversion of a ranch style property in the Village of Pittsford into apartments for persons with developmental disabilities is one of 21 projects throughout New York to receive initial funding under the state’s Small Rental Development Initiative, or SRDI. ...

Josh Sidebottom has been named chief operations officers for The Outdoor Group, the Henrietta-based manufacturer of archery and hunting related products. Sidebottom had been vice president of product development for the firm, which is the parent company of nine brands: ...

Expansion at The Glen at Perinton Hills will begin soon now that the developer has received all regulatory land use approvals for the nearly six-acre site. The current office park will be torn down and five new buildings will be ...