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The mortgage holder for the $18 million Chateau at Heritage Square senior living community in the Town of Sweden has filed suit to foreclose on the loan. S&T Bank of Indiana, Pa., filed papers in state Supreme Court in Monroe ...

Success is often a product of hard work. So, too, is the ability to observe and the willingness to adapt. Four recent Forty Under 40 honorees share thoughts on the most important lessons they have learned on the job. On ...

The closing of the Thomson Reuters legal services office in Rochester will leave all 304 employees without jobs by the time the shutdown is complete on Sept. 30. The Toronto-based, multifaceted media and information firm announced last week that Rochester ...

The City of Rochester and Monroe County are now providing more direct information at their annual tax foreclosure auctions about homes scheduled for demolition. While city and county officials say a notice about impending demolition has always been available before ...

Butler/Till has re-branded its integrated marketing agency to Verdant Brand Communications, a move meant to better reflect its evolution to meet a more diversified set of client challenges. Formerly known as Brand Cool, the new Verdant has expanded beyond the ...

Stantec, the Rochester-based design firm, was recognized for its work to revitalize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park at Manhattan Square. The project received a Diamond Award in the annual Engineering Excellence Awards from the American Council of Engineering ...

A judge has signed an order allowing for foreclosure proceedings to begin on a Buffalo-area apartment complex developed and owned by Buffalo State Ventures, a subsidiary of Rochester-based DHD Ventures. ACRES Capital, which helped broker two mortgages for the property ...

  The Original Steve’s Diner now has an original second location. The popular Penfield eatery has also become the anchor tenant in Whitney Town Center in Perinton. The 3,000-square-foot restaurant seats 100 and opened on Monday, Nov. 12. The grand ...

  The walls inside the office of Lou Spiotti Jr. at Rochester Institute of Technology aren’t adorned with an endless array of championship photos of Tigers sports teams. Not enough space, perhaps. After all, Spiotti, who is executive director of ...

ConServe’s ability to collect tax debt for the Internal Revenue Service has resulted in expanded collection work on behalf of the government agency, which in turn means more jobs in Monroe and Erie counties. The Continental Service Group Inc. (ConServe) ...

Nick Optis Sr., executive vice president at John W. Danforth Co., is retiring at the end of the year after 33 years with the mechanical contracting firm. Optis joined Danforth in 1986 and, since becoming executive vice president, has been overseeing ...

The future of retail, especially along West Ridge Road, will be undergoing an A to Z analysis in the coming months as the Town of Greece formulates a new master plan. From Manitou Road on the west to Mt. Read ...

The stately, ornate, three-story brick home, constructed during World War I and one of the many historic estates on East Avenue, sits empty. The owner, East 935 LLC, hopes that won’t be the case for too much longer. Built as ...

Three sections of New York State—Western, Central and the Southern Tier—continue to be among the most affordable areas in the country in terms of homeownership costs. Rochester ranks 38th among the 239 largest metropolitan areas in the United States with ...

Chris Edwards could have just been known as the advertising genius behind the singing-fish-on-the-wall campaign for McDonald’s. You know the one; “Gim-me that Filet-O-Fish, gim-me that fish.” It’s still annoyingly catchy, isn’t it? “I used to be known for my ...