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Everybody’s career path is unique, but there are some common threads for people who climb the ladder quickly. Ambition and resolve link these four executives who have achieved high-level positions at a young age. Here they share discuss the pivotal ...

The Kitchen, a restaurant that opened in the village of Pittsford in late 2015, has earned AAA’s Four Diamond award for the first time. AAA Western and Central New York announced on Thursday morning its 2017 Four-Diamond awards for 22 ...

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Fairport’s First American Equipment Finance has garnered itself another accolade, this time being named best midsize company to work for in New York. It’s the seventh time the company has made the list, and second taking the top spot. It’s ...

Leaders from OFD Foods LLC—who last year announced plans to open a $25 million manufacturing facility in Henrietta—were joined Thursday by elected officials and business representatives for a ceremonial groundbreaking for the 50,000-square-foot facility. The facility is expected to employ ...

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Like a favorite song on an MP3 player, the housing market in Monroe County is stuck on repeat. That’s what the latest Marketwatch report from the Greater Rochester Association of Realtors (GRAR) shows. Again. Home sales in Monroe County plummeted ...

Rochester Downtown Development Corp. is launching a restaurant week in Rochester next week, hoping to bring more business to the city’s restaurants while encouraging local residents to try something new. During “Eat Up Rochester,” which runs from Monday through Sunday, ...

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With an expected loss of 80 percent of the existing skilled workforce over the next 15 years, the International Code Council has launched a website for the ICC Military Families Career Path Program. The program helps veterans who are transitioning ...

Ask Ferdinand Jay Smith III to sit down at a piano and play a song and you’ll hear silence. An Eastman School of Music graduate he is not. But ask him to compose the music for a television series or ...

  In an effort to keep up with the times, the New York Wine and Culinary Center is undergoing a facelift. Now New York Kitchen, complete with a snazzy new minimalist logo, the nonprofit is bringing a harder focus on ...

Tops Friendly Markets has filed for bankruptcy. Rochester-area Sam’s Club stores abruptly closed. Toys R Us and its affiliated Babies R Us stores are going out of business. Barnes & Noble has cut staff. And malls are being converted—slowly—to uses ...

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You can’t use the “build it and they will come” mentality in retail anymore. That was one of the conclusions of a panel of retail experts who spoke on retail trends at a breakfast presentation organized by Rochester Downtown Development ...

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The majority of households in the Northeast believe buying a home within the ZIP code where they live is still a good investment, but they are far less bullish compared to residents in the West and South. The annual Survey of ...

Rochester’s Mobilize Rescue Systems has received the bronze award in medical innovations during the 2018 Edison Awards. Dubbed “the Oscars of Innovation,” the Edison Awards, since 1987, have recognized some of the best and brightest in the world of tech, ...

After 60 years of building high-quality industrial, office, multi-family, educational and retail properties across Upstate New York and the Northeast, Spoleta has done a little reconstruction in its own backyard. Spoleta, a full-service construction and development company based in Rochester, ...

Northwestern Mutual has awarded its Syracuse district director a 2018 Community Service Award, and with it, a $15,000 grant for Dress for Success – Rochester. Kate Michaels has been involved with the local nonprofit for three years, lending her coaching, ...

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