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As LaBella Associates celebrates a 41st year in business, what has been steady growth continues for the engineering, architecture and planning firm. Another 50 employees were added over the past year, pushing the companywide workforce to around 750. The majority, ...

Bergmann, the Rochester-based architecture, engineering and planning firm, has been awarded a three-year contract to provide design services to the New York State Office of General Services Design & Construction Group (OSG). Bergmann has been providing architectural services to the ...

Two Brighton lodging landmarks will be undergoing major makeovers in the next three months. The Comfort Inn at 2729 Monroe Ave. will become a Clarion Pointe, the new brand being unveiled this year by the Choice Hotels chain. The Brighton ...

As renovation continues at Sibley Square, innovation, education and incubation are driving the occupancy rate for office and retail space in the storied downtown structure. WinnCompanies, a family-owned real estate development and management firm based in Boston, is immersed in ...

Birnbaum Companies has purchased the four-story building at 125 State St. in downtown Rochester and plans to create moderately priced housing in what has been office space. While the creation of upscale apartments has been the rage in recent heart-of-the-city ...

Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, housed in Sustainability Institute Hall, lists nine different laboratories. But one that’s not on the list is the biggest of all – the building itself. With power or heat or both produced by a ...

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Rochester architecture, development and management firms piled up the hardware at the recent NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Awards Dinner in the Buffalo suburb of Depew. » SWBR was recognized for a pair of projects, winning the Best Industrial Development award ...

Most of the more than 100 million people watching Sunday’s Super Bowl on CBS will be keenly interested in whether the Los Angeles Rams can defeat quarterback Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. The design team at CPL, however, ...

Long before he ever ventured to the United States, long before he ever took his first engineering class at Syracuse University, and long before he ever started inspecting bridges in the real world, Cletus Ezenwa was quite sure of what ...

Former Geneva city manager Mathew Horn will be joining MRB Group to lead the firm’s Municipal Services Division. MRB, a Rochester-based engineering and architecture firm, employs more than 75 professionals, technicians and planners who have been recognized for their work ...

He was fresh out of college and ready to make his mark, heading to Manhattan armed with a bachelor’s degree in architecture and an ambitious desire to create. Ken Glazer had the perfect launching pad for his career, too. His ...

Bergmann design principal Jim Durfee, whose creative fingerprints are on a multitude of buildings in Rochester, will retire on Dec. 31 after 18 years at the firm and 35 in professional practice. Throughout his career, Durfee has shown a passion ...

Growing up the child of Chinese immigrants in Rochester and Brighton, Nancy Gong was familiar with Asian art and its emphasis on monochromatic works. Those familiar with the bus stop outside Gleason Works or the panels of glass in Rochester ...

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The home that helped launch the suffragist activities of Laura Cuppy Smith nearly two centuries ago has undergone an extensive structural rehabilitation, the first step toward the developers dream of creating a trendy tavern in downtown Rochester’s Cascade District. Twin ...

Given the choice between a mundane workload or an exacting assignment, Douglas B. Eldred chose the latter every time. A mid-project quandary always spiced up the workday for the senior project engineer at Fairport-based BME Associates. “Solving problems is what ...