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The town of Greece has launched a new initiative to provide assistance to small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The GROW Greece Program is meant to grant support for businesses, retain jobs in the town, provide opportunities and work ...

As New York state begins to reopen its economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, local law firms are helping clients to mitigate risks related to employees reluctant to return to work, avoiding liability for their various decisions about ...

For most business law practitioners, we have had little-to-no need to revisit the concepts of force majeure, frustration of purpose, impossibility, and impracticality since completing our final examination in contracts. This orthodoxy was challenged in March, when large sectors of ...

The Rochester Housing Authority and the Wayne County are among 10 organizations across the state chosen to receive technical assistance and up to $500,000 in resources to develop strategic approaches to preserve affordable housing. The support will come through the ...

The Housing Council at PathStone has selected an 11-year veteran of the agency as its new executive director. Mary Leo previously served as senior director of housing counseling services since 2018 and director of homeownership programs & program compliance officer ...

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Information Technology and security firm iV4 of Rochestser has been sold to ProArch. ProArch is an Atlanta-based product engineering, data and cloud services firm that also has offices in London, Singapore and three in India. “This big step is about ...

There’s a YouTube video going around in which comedian Julie Nolke, sitting in her house in January 2020, looks up to see a future version of herself from April 2020 sitting across the table. “Future Julie” proceeds to tell “January ...

The April jobs report provided the first tangible sign of the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic on the Rochester economy. After a trickle of layoffs in March, job losses swelled to a torrent in April — with non-farm employment ...

Regardless of their size, many businesses are struggling with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Some businesses have already permanently closed, and others are experiencing significant cash flow issues and are fighting to stay in business. The federal government, ...

While many law firms, accounting firms and other professional services have kept their businesses running remotely during the COVID-19 outbreak, they are about to start returning to the office during Phase 2 of the state’s reopening initiative. As they do, ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today gave permission to the Finger Lakes and four other regions in New York to proceed with Phase 2 of the economic reopening. That means offices, real estate, retail, hair salons and barbershops, automobiles sales, commercial building ...

The Golisano Foundation has awarded some $265,500 to 10 organizations in Western New York and Southwest Florida in its second round of COVID-19 Response Grants. The nonprofit has awarded nearly $700,000 in funding to date. Locally, the grants will help ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across continents and counties, sectors and services, farms and families. But the comeback of one industry, at least locally, means good things for consumers. “The buyer now is in the driver’s seat,” said Richard ...

For the last decade or so, office design has been moving gradually away from cubicles and defined, tight spaces and toward a more open, collaborative, shared environment. But with the global COVID-19 pandemic, office layouts are being redesigned for health ...

The Federal Reserve’s (Fed) monetary policy actions and the additional fiscal stimulus measures passed by Congress were much-needed steps to address the economic fallout resulting from social-distancing measures to limit the spread of COVID-19. As important as these actions are, ...