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As the Federal Reserve Board increasingly indicates it may cut interest rates later this year, the local banking and finance industry is ready for it by pursuing multifaceted strategies for growth. Martin K. Birmingham, president and chief executive officer of ...

According to a study put out by the Pepperdine Private Capital Market’s report, the No. 1 reason business owners contacted a broker or investment banker to sell their business in 2018 was due to retirement. Most business owners approach planning ...

Kevin Maroney, president and CEO of Fairport Savings Bank, is looking forward to July 25. That’s the day the bank begins offering its newest digital offering, Zelle, to customers. As Maroney explains, it’s basically a fast, safe and easy way ...

Only about a third of Americans have end-of-life plans for their assets and health-care decisions. Unfortunately, even when plans are made they often include costly mistakes, said Lisa Powers, senior counsel and elder law attorney at Harris Beach PLLC. Powers ...

As the nation’s baby boomers continue to enter their 60s and 70s, elder care facilities are experiencing a growth spurt, as well as making significant changes to accommodate the needs of the next generation of older Americans. Senior living and ...

In ways large and small, local residential facilities for seniors are working to reduce their negative effects upon the environment. Even some of the seniors they serve are stepping up in defense of the environment. “Our residents are very much ...

In the world of craft brewing there is no shortage of collaborative efforts among brewers, and the Greater Rochester market is no exception. Teaming up with would-be-rivals to produce a special beer that both companies invest in and distribute is ...

America, we need to talk aging. I know many of you want to stop reading right now. But let’s face the facts. Never have so many of us lived so long. When I give talks about the demographics of aging, ...

Craft brewing is, at its heart and soul, a movement forged around small business. In the world of beer, a DIY ethos of jumping from home brewer to owning a five-barrel brew house to one day shipping beers across the ...

It’s Monday, June 24, canning day at Brockport’s Stoneyard Brewing Co., where an army of hundreds of bare aluminum vessels march single file down the line, each picking up a shiny new red label as they reach the finish line ...

As upscale apartments became the rage on Rochester’s downtown rental landscape — with inventory going from anomaly to normalcy around 2016 — there was a common refrain. “Wow, these are nice.” Followed by, “Where do I sign?” From the immaculately ...

In the beginning, there was a plan, there was material and there was manpower. These three components have been the cornerstone of one of the most basic human needs — to build shelter — since time immemorial. More specifically, anthropologists ...

“I wanted to be an architect.” Often, this is the typical response I get when I tell people I’m an architect. I’m frequently surprised to hear this as for many architects we feel there is a mystery around our profession ...

Rochester-area companies say the pool of potential employees has been drying up. “In the past, a client may have interviewed 10 applicants per job opening,” says Jeanie Burgen Fitzgerald, president of the full-service staffing firm TalentBridge Network LLC. “Today, the ...

Accusations of blatant sexual harassment against public figures such as Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer may have kicked the #MeToo movement into high gear, but there is far more to the movement that began midway through the first decade of ...