Where Rochester’s downtown once featured four department stores and two grocery stores, now there are none. A quarter century after the last department store closed, in the places where all of Rochester once shopped, there’s a car museum, a large ...

Tagged with: department stores downtown downtown revitalization Heidi Zimmer-Meyer Jenna Manetta-Knauf Ken Greene restaurants retail Roc Holiday Village Sibley Square

Eat Up Rochester kicks off again on Monday, featuring 22 restaurants that are offering special menus at special prices. From a nationally known steakhouse (Morton’s) in the heart of downtown to casual Jamaican restaurants on both the east (Peppapot Flava) ...

Tagged with: Cafe Sol Eat Up Rochester Heidi Zimmer-Meyer Livvie's Local's Only Morton's Peppapot Flava restaurant week Rochester Downtown Redevelopment Corporation

Disability Rights New York this week welcomed city officials and community members to the not-for-profit’s expanded downtown offices. “We chose Rochester to expand,” DRNY Executive Director Timothy Clune said during the event. “We also chose this location so that we ...

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When Rochester’s weather is good, it’s glorious. And such was the case when Native Eatery and Bar held a ribbon cutting Tuesday at 3 City Center, the former Frontier building at 180 S. Clinton Ave. One of the restaurant’s features, which ...

Tagged with: 3 City Center downtown Elaine Spaul Heidi Zimmer-Meyer Jason Carlson Lauren Mueller Native Eatery and Bar Peter Landers Ross Mueller