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Once a bustling center of commerce, the northwest corner of East Main Street and North Clinton Avenue for two decades or more has been a collection of blighted buildings begging for demolition or rebirth.

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"Until Main and Clinton is vibrant again, Rochester won't be fully back," Hochul said. "You go by this and it just taunts people. It tells you there was once a place where people wanted to be, and we lost the luster. That symbol of urban decay has been crying out for a vision for a long time."

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Along with the outdoor market, Birdhouse will have live music on Friday and Saturday evenings, three outdoor firepits and a seating in a heated barn adjacent to Honeoye Creek.

Empire State Development funds the Grow-NY competition through its Upstate Revitalization Initiative (URI), CNY Rising, Finger Lakes Forward, and Southern Tier Soaring.

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In a complaint filed Friday in state Supreme Court in Monroe County, the Monroe Community Sports Centre Corp. alleges Bill Gray's, Inc., hasn't paid monthly rent for the bar, restaurant and snack bar since June 2019 and hasn't paid monthly naming rights fees since October 2019.

Customers can play the latest multiplayer video games, tabletop games and retro classics at their tables.  

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First there was pizza delivery. Then came food delivery apps, followed by prepare-at-home meal kits. Now comes a service that rolls it all into one. With a motto of “Everyone’s private chef,” Homechow promises to bring hot, gourmet cuisine to ...

Workers at the Starbucks kiosk in Eastview Mall approved the formation of a union despite what labor leaders say was a concerted effort by the coffee company to dissuade employees from organizing.

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Holidays at the Market will run for four days over three and a half weeks: for three consecutive Sundays (Nov. 27, Dec. 4 and Dec. 11) from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., followed by Thursday, Dec. 15, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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Jersey Mike's Subs will open its doors in Irondequoit for the first time on Wednesday, the third Rochester-area location for the nationally franchised sandwich shop to launch operations in the past 10 months.

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The city of Rochester's Roc Holiday Village presented by Five Star Bank returns in December for 16 days of merriment at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park.

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On Sunday the Ingles will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ingle Vineyard and the 45th anniversary of crafting award-winning wines at Heron Hill Winery.

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A Texas-based company that owns two Sonic restaurants in the Rochester area has plans for significant expansion of the franchise in the Upstate market.

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Nine organizations will use $14.5 million in federal funding allotted to Rochester to engage more than 3,000 residents in workforce development and entrepreneurship training.

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Henrietta Hidden Forest Equities LLC, a subsidiary of Time Equities, has owned the property since July 2006, when it paid $6.2 million to Kimco Realty for the deed.

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