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At the helm
Rochester ranks 10th among U.S. cities for female entrepreneurs. Using 2015 census data, financial organization Merchant Cash USA ranked some of the nation’s largest cities based on the number of small businesses per 10,000 people, rental costs and unemployment rate. It also tracked funding availability and cost of living. Women business owners also rated their […]
Explore Greater Rochester: Andrew Gallina
Andrew Gallina, president, Gallina Development Corp. and a Rochester native with fond memories of downtown’s heyday The Metropolitan (formerly Chase Tower, which Gallina is converting): It is simply a beautiful building with such a rich history. Architecturally, I love the lines and its vision of rising from the ground to the sky. Taking risks: I […]
Explore Greater Rochester: Accommodations
Bed & Breakfasts and Luxury Rentals 7 on Strath: 461-5010; 7onstrath.com A B&B at the Ellwanger Estate: 314-1793; ellwangerestate.com A B&B at the Genesee Country Inn: 538-2500; geneseecountryinn.com Abner Adams House: 657-4681; abneradamshouse.com Adams Basin Inn B&B on the Erie Canal: 352-3999; adamsbasininn.com An Inn at Reen’s (Bed & Breakfast): 458-9306; stayatreens.[...]
Five Star Bank sets its sights on downtown
Five Star Bank’s plan to move downtown represents a critical step toward expansion in the Rochester area, bank officials say. The bank, which operates under parent company Financial Institutions Inc., last week said it was relocating its regional administrative center from Pittsford to the building at 100 Chestnut St. The move will bring nearly 150 […]
Study details gender wage gap in N.Y.
Women in New York lose a combined $20 billion every year because of the gender wage gap, a new analysis by the National Partnership for Women and Families shows. On average, the report found, women in New York are paid 87 cents for every dollar paid to men, a yearly pay gap of nearly $6,800. […]
Snap Poll: Most support crackdown on corporate inversions
The majority of respondents to this week’s RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll—more than 70 percent—support the federal government’s moves to throttle corporate inversions.
Sweet spot
What if the conventional wisdom about Rochester these days is wrong? Would we believe it?
Portfolio: United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX)
Portfolio is a weekly report compiled from the proxy statement and annual report of a publicly held company with local headquarters or a company with a major division in the area. View this week’s Portfolio.
Best of the Web Buzz Award finalists
This year’s Best of the Web Buzz Award finalists are Blackfriars Theatre, Premium Mortgage Corp. and Roberts Communications Inc. The award goes to a local business or organization generating the most buzz on social media platforms—such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Instagram—measured by the number of votes it gets on RBJ’s Facebook page. 4/8/2016 […]
Comments from 2016 Best of the Web judges
Banking and Financial Services teamdkb.com DeJoy, Knauf, & Blood Extremely content-rich site with a wide variety of client resources. Good responsiveness for variety of screen sizes. Easy/consistent navigation. At max screen size, interior page text content is lengthy and difficult to read; extremely long line-length is very tiring on the eyes, and is especially not […]
Hundreds participate in Best of Web contest
More than two decades have passed since the Rochester Business Journal held its first Best of the Web competition.
Snap Poll: Key parts of Cuomo’s new budget get poor grades
The plurality of Snap Poll respondents—just shy of half—gave the final versions of the minimum wage hike and paid family leave law failing grades.
