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As workplaces reopen following the pandemic, childcare again is at the top of workers’ minds. By some counts, 20,000 childcare centers closed nationwide since the start of the pandemic and one in nine childcare worker jobs have been lost. But ...

A just-formed partnership with Colliers Engineering & Design eventually will lead to Rochester-based architecture, engineering and planning firm Bergmann becoming part of a new entity, CED. The partnership with Colliers Engineering & Design has been in the works since February, ...

As New York continues a statewide push for the creation of more clean energy, LaBella Associates is experiencing strong growth in the renewable energy sector. A focus on solar construction by LaBella’s renewable energy group has led to a significant ...

The four-story Hickey Freeman building, one of the most iconic manufacturing sites in Rochester, will be undergoing a $70 million transformation, with two-thirds of the sprawling facility turned into affordable senior housing. Under plans expected to be finalized in the ...

First American Equipment Finance, ESL Federal Credit Union and LaBella Associates were again named to the Fortune Best Small & Medium Workplaces by Great Place To Work. Fairport-based First American Equipment Finance ranks No. 18 on the 2021 list for ...

With the ROC the Riverway waterfront revitalization initiative well underway, the city of Rochester now is seeking a consultant to provide preliminary design services for transformation of the Erie Canal aqueduct on Broad Street. The aqueduct once carried the Erie ...

SWBR has been recognized in the Zweig Group annual awards, winning a 2021 Marketing Excellence Award in the website category for its in-house “The Hub.” The awards honor “outstanding and effective marketing” in the architecture, engineering and consulting industry. The “Hub” ...

Synergy IT Solutions has a new Rochester location and plans to grow the business as more companies look to migrate to cloud services. The new site, in a suite at 3500 Winton Place, is being branded as the Rochester Collaboration ...

Nine area high school and college students were recipients of merit-based scholarships awarded by the Rochester chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Rochester) and The Architectural Foundation of Greater Rochester (AFGR). Scholarships totaling $17,000 were awarded thanks to ...

When Heidi Zimmer-Meyer looks out of her office window on Chestnut Street, she can see five or six buildings under construction out her window. Zimmer-Meyer, president of the Rochester Downtown Development Corporation, says that since 2000, 5,200 people have moved ...

Construction on the Trailside Cafe at Seneca Park Zoo is underway, the latest step in the zoo’s master plan. The two-level, 9,000-square-foot eatery will replace the existing Eagle’s Landing food option and will comfortably fit 40. The space will also ...

Susan Riedman Holliday, former president, publisher and owner of the Rochester Business Journal, has donated $1.25 million to Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology for the creation of a fourth-floor signature event space. Holliday, vice chair of ...

The ability to transform an equipment shed on a horse farm into a home, and to take the transplanted skeleton frame of a barn near Schenectady and turn it into a house in Ohio earned PLAN Architectural Studio two honors ...

Enabling residents to have meaningful input into the long overdue transformation of the Bull’s Head neighborhood is critical to project success, a member panel form the Urban Land Institute told city leaders and residents on Thursday morning. From grab-and-go ethnic ...

Viridi Parente, Inc., a developer of innovative battery technology, has shipped its initial batch of batteries to Rochester’s Li-Cycle Corp., an industry leader in lithium-ion battery resource recovery and the leading lithium-ion battery recycler in North America. By recycling 100 ...