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Colliers Engineering & Design affiliate Bergmann and In.Site:Architecture received the Design Award, the highest honor given in the annual architecture contest by AIA Rochester.

Concerned that the University of Rochester is planning to clear up to an acre and a half of wooded land adjacent to Genesee Valley Park to build a facilities operations area, the Preservation League has added the park to its ...

Voters in Victor and Farmington rejected a proposed new library that would have tripled the tax liability for homeowners. The $16.6 million project for the 24,000-square-foot facility was soundly defeated at the polls, with 3,256 no votes compared to 1,415 ...

When Amy Casciani looked at the shuttered remnants of retail vitality on the former Irondequoit Mall complex a few years back, she didn’t see urban/suburban blight, she saw a solution to a problem. Monroe County, like just about every other ...

It has been exactly 50 years since Gary Passero launched Passero Associates in a one-room office on Lake Avenue. Over the five decades that began on April 15, 1972, the engineering and consulting firm has become a stalwart not just ...

Meadow Reserve at Irondquoit, a $20.4 million affordable and supportive housing community for seniors, officially opened on Thursday. Developed by Rochester Management, Inc., Meadow Reserve provides 80 affordable housing units for residents 55 and older. Half of the units are ...

Kevin Schulte doesn’t mince words when it comes to whether a business should consider solar energy options. “Right now, in 2022, is the greatest opportunity to invest in clean energy and clean energy technologies than there has been in the ...

With an April 1 deadline for proposals on how to spend $10 million in Downtown Revitalization Initiative funding, officials will hold open office hours from noon to 3 p.m. on Friday at the Mercantile on Main at Sibley Square. The ...

Buoyed by more than $200 million in private investment along the site of the former Inner Loop East, city officials are ready to convert what remains of the sunken roadway.

SWBR, a Rochester-based multidisciplinary design from, has added two principals to the firm’s leadership team and also promoted four others to senior associates. Architects Leticia Blaya Fornataro and Robert Fornataro join the leadership core that is responsible for client relationships, ...

Civil engineer David Cox and architect Mira Mejibovsky have been promoted to the senior management team at Passero Associates.   Cox, a senior associate and civil department manager, has 20 years of engineering experience, the past 12 with Passero. Mejibovsky, ...

The  state Route 104 bridge replacement project over Oak Orchard Creek in Orleans County was named Project of the Year by the Genesee Valley Chapter of the American Public Works Association. The project won in the “Structures less than $5 ...

Excelsior Communities has purchased the Medical Arts Building and plans to create a live-work-play facility within the historic 10-story art deco structure.

When RDG+Partners realized they had outgrown their space in Pittsford Village Green, the search began for a new home. You can only add on so many times before you reach a building’s limit. “Our old space was homey and comfortable ...

LaBella Associates will soon acquire Stieglitz Snyder Architecture (SSA) of Buffalo, providing further expansion into Western New York for the Rochester-based multidiscipline design firm. Founded in 1970, SSA’s portfolio of projects includes residential, civic, cultural, corporate, educational and commercial. The ...