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The Kitchen, a restaurant that opened in the village of Pittsford in late 2015, has earned AAA’s Four Diamond award for the first time. AAA Western and Central New York announced on Thursday morning its 2017 Four-Diamond awards for 22 ...

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Leaders from OFD Foods LLC—who last year announced plans to open a $25 million manufacturing facility in Henrietta—were joined Thursday by elected officials and business representatives for a ceremonial groundbreaking for the 50,000-square-foot facility. The facility is expected to employ ...

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Like a favorite song on an MP3 player, the housing market in Monroe County is stuck on repeat. That’s what the latest Marketwatch report from the Greater Rochester Association of Realtors (GRAR) shows. Again. Home sales in Monroe County plummeted ...

Rochester Downtown Development Corp. is launching a restaurant week in Rochester next week, hoping to bring more business to the city’s restaurants while encouraging local residents to try something new. During “Eat Up Rochester,” which runs from Monday through Sunday, ...

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With an expected loss of 80 percent of the existing skilled workforce over the next 15 years, the International Code Council has launched a website for the ICC Military Families Career Path Program. The program helps veterans who are transitioning ...

Ask Ferdinand Jay Smith III to sit down at a piano and play a song and you’ll hear silence. An Eastman School of Music graduate he is not. But ask him to compose the music for a television series or ...

Tops Friendly Markets has filed for bankruptcy. Rochester-area Sam’s Club stores abruptly closed. Toys R Us and its affiliated Babies R Us stores are going out of business. Barnes & Noble has cut staff. And malls are being converted—slowly—to uses ...

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You can’t use the “build it and they will come” mentality in retail anymore. That was one of the conclusions of a panel of retail experts who spoke on retail trends at a breakfast presentation organized by Rochester Downtown Development ...

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The majority of households in the Northeast believe buying a home within the ZIP code where they live is still a good investment, but they are far less bullish compared to residents in the West and South. The annual Survey of ...

After 60 years of building high-quality industrial, office, multi-family, educational and retail properties across Upstate New York and the Northeast, Spoleta has done a little reconstruction in its own backyard. Spoleta, a full-service construction and development company based in Rochester, ...

Northwestern Mutual has awarded its Syracuse district director a 2018 Community Service Award, and with it, a $15,000 grant for Dress for Success – Rochester. Kate Michaels has been involved with the local nonprofit for three years, lending her coaching, ...

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Two local projects have been approved for funding assistance by Imagine Monroe, formerly the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency, expecting to retain more than a dozen jobs and add 15 part-time jobs here. Buckingham Properties LLC has proposed the ...

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Construction has begun on a $5.2 million paving project in northern Monroe and Orleans counties, the state Department of Transportation said this week. The project will rehabilitate nearly 30 lane miles of the Lake Ontario State Parkway between Route 19 ...

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A contribution of $22,813 to Golisano Children’s Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center during 2017 has earned the RE/MAX Realty Group the Top Children Miracle Network Office — Upstate award within the RE/MAX company. The RE/MAX Realty Group has ...

More than 8,000 stores owned by Starbucks, including several in Monroe County, will be closed the afternoon of May 29 to engage in racial bias education prompted by a racial incident at a Philadelphia store last week. According to national ...

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