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The city of Rochester will invest $6.8 million for revitalization of Genesee Gateway Park and the Riverway Trail.

A series of free informational workshops aimed at providing a roadmap to recovery and growth in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is being offered to Ontario County small businesses and nonprofits. Ostrander’s Consulting, hired by Ontario County’s planning department, ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded Xerox a 10-year, $164 million contract for continued managed print services, new electronic fax services and additional innovation across its agencies.   The contract includes a total of up to 16,000 Xerox devices, with many ...

Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP has launched an online training platform with on-demand curriculum.

Literacy Rochester is in a growth mode, not only expanding its geographic reach beyond the Rochester area over the past year, but adding more services as well.

Palmer Food Services has opened the Palmer Food Services Buffalo Client and Culinary Center in West Seneca, Erie County, which marks the company’s second corporate location in New York.  The site includes an executive test kitchen, meeting space and corporate ...

A new grant program established through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will provide economic aid to Hickey Freeman and other domestic textile manufacturers. The Cotton and Wool Apparel Program (CAWA) will compensate American manufacturers, along with cotton and wool ...

The 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum has been selected for one of 10 History of Equal Rights grants by the Historic Preservation Fund of the National Park Service.   The nonprofit was awarded $483,727 to help restore the 1816 Farmington ...

After growing strongly last month, business activity declined in New York state, according to firms responding to the May 2022 Empire State Manufacturing Survey.   The general business conditions index retreated thirty-six points to -11.6, its second negative reading in ...

One of the most important things to know about employee benefits today is that there has been a seismic shift – both in semantics and practice – from wellness to well-being.

The New York Business Plan Competition announced winners at Venture NY, an event for early-stage companies, investors and innovators hosted by the Upstate Capital Association of New York.  

Creating a vibrant and equitable Monroe County as a great place to live, work and raise a family can be achieved through focus on pillars of stability: economic and workforce development, public safety, public health and wellness and infrastructure. That ...

  The proposed city of Rochester budget includes a 9.6 percent increase in spending — with public safety, neighborhoods and economic empowerment among the priorities — but no change in the tax levy. Mayor Malik Evans unveiled on Friday morning ...

When Amy Casciani looked at the shuttered remnants of retail vitality on the former Irondequoit Mall complex a few years back, she didn’t see urban/suburban blight, she saw a solution to a problem. Monroe County, like just about every other ...

L3Harris Technologies’ Advanced Baseline Imager that was on a satellite launched into space in March has captured its first image there for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.   The instrument was built at the company’s Fort Wayne, Ind. facility, ...