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Stantec, the Rochester-based design firm, was recognized for its work to revitalize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park at Manhattan Square. The project received a Diamond Award in the annual Engineering Excellence Awards from the American Council of Engineering ...

The future of retail, especially along West Ridge Road, will be undergoing an A to Z analysis in the coming months as the Town of Greece formulates a new master plan. From Manitou Road on the west to Mt. Read ...

Pathfinder Engineers & Architects of Rochester has won first place in the annual American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Technology Awards for work on a project in Binghamton. Pathfinder is one of just six firms to be ...

Engineering has traditionally been a male dominated field, and while more and more women are entering the profession—and the STEM fields as a whole—the playing field is not yet level. Caroline Wheadon, an environmental engineer, project manager and hydropower business ...

Joseph Istvan has been named the recipient of the Medal of Distinction, the highest honor awarded by the American Institute of Architects, Rochester Chapter. Istvan recently retired from Bergmann after 30 years with the design firm. A collaborator, leader and ...

Amy Casciani grew up in Irondequoit and raised her children there, so she understands the status the old shopping mall once held in the town. “I know what the mall meant when it was up and running, and I especially ...

While on the path to master’s degrees in architecture from the University at Buffalo more than 30 years ago, Joe O’Donnell and Roger Langer often talked about the future. “We had become good friends and we said, ‘How nice would ...

The State University College at Geneseo has a new dining hall. The college held a grand opening of the 21,000-square-foot Red Jacket Dining Complex during Homecoming festivities last weekend. Visitors got to see a pay-one-price Red Jacket dining hall, as ...

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Syracuse-based Barton & Loguidice, which has an extensive engineering, planning and architecture footprint in New York, has acquired Steinmetz Planning Group. The move will enhance community planning services for Barton & Loguidice, which has 13 offices in the Northeast. Rochester ...

Clark Patterson Lee has acquired Morris Associates, the largest municipal engineering firm in Poughkeepsie. CPL is an architecture, engineering and planning firm based in Rochester. The addition of the Morris Associates’ offices in Poughkeepsie and Hudson gives CPL 15 locations ...

When the first official laughter at the National Comedy Center in Jamestown is unleashed this morning, visitors will experience 30,700 square feet of never-ending humor. From old sitcom clips to a hologram theater to comedy karaoke, the world’s only comedic ...

What has been a desolate parking lot at Eastman Business Park will soon become a 17-building development of mixed-income housing as well as commercial space. Groundbreaking for The Eastman Reserve, an undertaking of PathStone, began Wednesday afternoon along the western ...

Taylor, the regional commercial contractor based in Penfield, has partnered with the Pluta Foundation and Hanlon Architects on the design and construction of a medical office build-out on the second floor of the Pluta Cancer Center. Construction on the 6,000-square-foot ...

Expansion at The Glen at Perinton Hills will begin soon now that the developer has received all regulatory land use approvals for the nearly six-acre site. The current office park will be torn down and five new buildings will be ...

MRB Group, a Rochester-based engineering, architecture and surveying firm, has acquired Chatfield Engineers. The move expands MRB’s municipal services team and is designed to enhance services to clients of both firms. “In order to serve the increasing need clients, we also ...