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After 11 years, 150 public meetings and well over a million dollars in legal fees for all parties, Mark IV Enterprises says a judge’s ruling will finally allow construction on Westport Crossing Residential Community in the Village of Pittsford to ...

While overall construction employment matched a 10-year high in August of 7.26 million, the number of women holding jobs in the industry remains far below pre-recession numbers. There were 971,000 women nationwide working in the construction field in August, according ...

“As far back as I can remember I’ve wanted to be an attorney.” Anthony Iacchetta, 33, followed through with this aspiration he’s had since childhood. In middle school, he begged his parents to let him sign up for a law ...

After 40 years in the business, 26 stores, 1600 employees and recovery from a nearly devastating stroke, Sam Fantauzzo may be taking it a little easier in the future.  But don’t sign him up for a rocker just yet. The ...

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Recipients of the 24th annual Rochester Business Journal Forty Under 40 awards have been selected. The honorees are professionals younger than 40 who demonstrate leadership in the workplace and in the community. “This year’s Forty Under 40 honorees are building ...

Nearly two years after a Beechwood toddler was struck and killed while chasing a ball, residents, neighborhood groups and several organizations teamed up to make Parsells Avenue safer for everyone. Dozens of volunteers came together Saturday for Reconnect Rochester’s Complete ...

By the time the new Pegula Sports and Entertainment lacrosse franchise begins play in Rochester, a large chunk of $18 million in upgrades to Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial may very well be completed. Kim and Terry Pegula ...

Rochester’s Vuzix has signed an agreement with an aerospace firm to produce waveguide-based head mounted display systems for aerospace industry. Vuzix is a manufacturer of augmented and virtual reality glasses for consumer and business spaces. The new contract is made ...

The state Department of Agriculture has confirmed four cases of equine infection with West Nile Virus, including one in Livingston County, and so is urging horse owners to vaccinate their animals. “This is the time of year when the risk ...

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A new report from the US Census found a historically low uninsured rate across New York, with particularly low numbers upstate. The 2017 American Community Survey, released Thursday, Sept. 13, reported New York’s overall uninsured  rate at 5.7 percent, 3 ...

Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo cut the ribbon today on the Seneca Park Zoo’s new Animals of the Savanna expansion. The five-acre project features Masai giraffes, zebras, ostriches, a southern rhino and more than a dozen other animals. “After 15 ...

You aren’t seeing many of those little yellow boxes anymore, but due to a partnership between Eastman Kodak Co. and fast-fashion leader Forever 21, the Kodak brand will soon emblazoning young fashionistas. The line of 26 Kodak-branded clothing items will ...

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Robert Beck has been named chief executive officer for John W. Danforth Company, becoming just the seventh CEO in the company’s 134-year history. Beck joined Danforth in 1993 and has been president of Danforth since 2015. He succeeds Kevin “Duke” ...

A Syracuse suburb has told Robert Morgan’s development company that it will no longer entertain his plans for an apartment complex and retail center on a vacant brownfield site. The Board of Trustees for the Village of Fayetteville informed Morgan’s ...

Standing before a field of tens of thousands of solar panels in Hilton, Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo announced on Wednesday that she has created a sustainability team to carry on work like the solar array and other energy-saving projects ...

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