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Construction is underway on Oakwood Hills, a Ryan Homes development in Batavia that will feature 56 single-family houses. Homes in the new residential community on the city’s east side will range in size from 1,483 square feet to 2,190 square ...

Homebuilders in the Northeast aren’t as bullish on the market for newly built single-family homes as their counterparts across the country. The February National Home Builders Association/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) showed a two-point drop from January in a ...

The second and final phase of the $14 million Route 531 project in Ogden and Sweden has wrapped up, easing the flow of traffic along the redesigned highway. The project began in 2017 and was intended to create a more ...

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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 ...

The realignment of Dewey Avenue and Driving Park Avenue has been named Project of the Year by the Genesee Valley branch of the American Public Works Association. The project, designed by Bergmann, won in the category of transportation projects less ...

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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 ...

Grants totaling nearly $4 million secured by M&T Bank will support the construction or rehabilitation of 428 affordable housing units in the Rochester area. The grants for five projects were obtained by M&T through the Federal Home Loan Bank of ...

Perinton’s Route 31F bridge replacement project has been awarded Project of the Year by the American Public Works Association Genesee Valley Chapter. In the category of structures projects costing less than $5 million, the Macedon Center Road bridge that carries ...

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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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The Aldi store at 714 Long Pond Road in Greece is being renovated, with completion scheduled for April. Empire Commercial Construction, a division of Taylor — The Builders, has been awarded the renovation contract, which covers an addition, remodeling the ...

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The creation of the Arbor Creek Townhomes community in the Village of Webster, a Pride Mark Homes, Inc., undertaking, is well underway. The first two phases of townhomes in the 55-plus housing development sold out, and construction continues on soon-to-be-occupied ...

Rochester was one of 90 metropolitan areas in the country to experience at least an 8 percent year-over-year growth in construction jobs in December. Firms in the Rochester area employed 19,800 workers in December 2018, 1,500 more than in December ...

Unemployment is low, companies are still hiring, consumer confidence is quite strong and a leading local economist believes the Federal Reserve may back away from interest rate hikes, yet the local housing market could remain stagnant because of the same ...

Richard “Dick” Ash, who guided Rochester construction mainstay C.P. Ward Inc. for more than 50 years as the firm’s president, died on Friday with his daughters at his side. He was 81. Mr. Ash, who lived in the Livingston County ...

What began as a desire to cut costs and become more environmentally friendly has turned into a new product, a new business venture and a new location for MCM Natural Stone Inc. and its subsidiary CM&M Industries Inc. CM&M is ...