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Phase I has been completed on Otto House, a Veterans Outreach Center facility that provides transitional housing. Otto House, at 290 Cypress St., will serve eight veterans who are also able to receive case management and have access to services ...

The cost of slow payments to subcontractors for wages and invoices adds an average of 5 percent to total project costs — totaling a staggering $64 billion annually nationwide — according to a recent survey by a construction finance software firm. Payments ...

The founder of a small marketing and communications company and a former banker who bought a construction company 18 years ago are the winners of the 2019 Small Business Council of Rochester’s Business Person of the Year Award. Nicole Mahoney, ...

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When Cedarwood Towers went on sale last year, Roger Brandt saw an opportunity for Rochester’s Cornerstone Group Ltd. to again make an impact on lives in Rochester. He was well aware that the twin-tower apartment community had, over 45 years, gone ...

Only 18 U.S. metropolitan areas saw a job gain rate in the construction industry that outpaced the Rochester market between August 2018 and August 2019. Construction jobs increased from 23,000 to 25,000 in Rochester, a 9 percent year-over-year gain, according ...

The University of Rochester plans to begin construction next month on a new performing arts center, providing additional space for theatrical, dance and musical performances on the River Campus. The 29,000-square-foot Sloan Performing Arts Center will be built on what ...

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The red, lighted KODAK atop the Eastman Kodak Co. headquarters remains an iconic beacon in downtown Rochester. But the sign has company now — and just a few stories below, on what once was Kodak property. Monroe Community College erected ...

The former Friendly’s restaurant on Dewey Avenue in Greece is scheduled to become the area’s newest KFC. Plaza Street Partners of Prairie Village, Kan., completed the purchase of the building late last month for $435,000, according to records filed with ...

The redevelopment of the former Inner Loop is doing more than just bringing people and vibrancy to once-ignored neighborhoods in the city of Rochester. It’s the prime example of how Rochester can begin to rid itself of a segregated divide, ...

Redevelopment of Buffalo’s downtown skyway will be done with a big assist from three Rochester-based firms. SWBR, Fisher Associates and MRB Group combined forces to create the winning entry in the state’s Aim for the Sky: The Buffalo Skyway Corridor Competition. Throughout the ...

During his 13 years as president, chairman and/or CEO of Conifer Realty LLC, Tim Fournier has helped the Rochester-based firm make a significant impact in the affordable housing industry. One project, Erie Harbor, revived a three-block stretch of Mount Hope ...

With so few houses available on the market, more homeowners are choosing to give their current living space a new feel by remodeling or renovating. Sometimes, however, homeowners have an unrealistic expectation of the time it will take to complete ...

For decades, it was perhaps the most underutilized thoroughfare in Rochester, an urban-renewal-era roadway meant to move drivers into and out of downtown in rapid fashion. In reality, the Inner Loop was very much a moat, sans water. The sunken, ...

Melissa Wentland, project manager at DGA Builders, will serve a second year as president of the National Association for Women in Construction — Greater Rochester Chapter. Wentland has been on the NAWIC board since 2015. She was a finalist for the ...

The national housing market may be slowing and still-low mortgage rates aren’t nudging potential home-buyers toward a purchase, the National Association of Home Builders says after analysis of a recent poll. The number of adults considering the purchase of a ...