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Passero Associates has opened an office in Buffalo, where the engineering and architecture firm has worked on numerous projects in the past. The office is at 737 Delaware Ave., Suite 100A, and will enable the Rochester-based firm to continue its ...

  Since entering the workforce, Mike Long has always been doing something in the construction trades. He did framing. He did electrical work. He did siding. He did roofing. He also always did those tasks while working for someone else. ...

As the co-owner’s son, Cody Hewitt did not volunteer but rather was volunteered — by said co-owner — to spend summers during his high school years working at Hewitt Young Electric LLC. To be clear, this was not a job taken ...

The Wall Street Journal and Moody’s Analytics have not been kind to Rochester when it comes to job market rankings, but the city and the county’s official tourism agency hope a new campaign will change perceptions. Mayor Lovely Warren and ...

Construction is underway on Happiness House Apartments in Canandaigua, a $9.7 million affordable and supportive housing development that will create 30 homes. The project includes 22 apartments for individuals and families, another eight apartments for seniors. Four of the senior ...

dt ogilvie, Mayor Lovely Warren’s senior advisor on economic development and urban entrepreneurship with the city of Rochester, will receive the YES Entrepreneurship Service award. The award recognizes’s ogilvie’s role “in promoting and championing youth entrepreneurship and community development” and ...

The Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce is turning to Cause + Effect Strategy for creation of a plan that will enable better and more efficient use of data and technology to serve the business community’s evolving needs. CE Strategy will ...

  Four area hotel projects are in the works for Indus Hospitality Group of Penfield, including the first brand-name lodging in the Wyoming County seat of Warsaw. Indus is targeting a May opening for a 67-room Microtel Inn & Suites ...

Citizens Bank has issued an $8.7 million loan to help create 41 new units of affordable housing in the city of Rochester. The project, Jefferson Wollensack LLC and sponsored by the Urban League of Rochester, will convert the former Wollensack ...

Rochester Drug Co-Operative has plans to close its facility in Gates before the end of May, meaning 98 employees will lose their jobs, according to a notification filed Thursday and posted today on the New York State Department of Labor ...

Gary Kirkmire, neighborhood and business development commissioner for the city of Rochester, has been appointed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s advisory council on lead poisoning prevention. The advisory council provides guidance to the New York Department of Health for development and ...

Tom Golisano has always been fond of making a buck. Or a billion. As the founder of Paychex, he turned his $3,000 in savings and a credit card into a $28 billion Fortune 500 firm. But starting a payroll processing ...

County Executive Adam Bello, along with county legislative leaders Vincent Felder and Karla Boyce, said today that they will attempt to repeal the new law that made harassment of a first responder a crime. In a letter to the County ...

Monroe County has made enhancements to the child care subsidy program in an effort to ensure working parents have access to vital programs. “As we all know, for many working parents, child care can be both an economic necessity and ...

Ned Tursunovic remembers his job interview a decade ago with Jeff Morrell, the CEO of Morrell Builders. At the time, Morrell Builders and Pride Mark Homes Inc. were entering a joint venture to create a design studio, and they needed ...