Midtown Plaza:
Rochester, New York
Midtown Closing Sparks Parking Scramble
August 27, 2008 Rachel Barnhart 13Wham.com Midtown Plazaâs 1,800-space parking garage closes on September 30, and the race is on to find other parking......
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Finale for Midtown Plaza
July 25, 2007 WXXI, Bud Lowell Friday at 5:30 p.m. marks the finale for Midtown Plaza -- the last day it's regularly open to the public. The Clock of Nations and most of the businesses are already gone. Many of the people walking through Midtown Plaza today carried cameras and were getting snapshots of its final hours. Some made a few final purchases at one of the few businesses that hasn't moved yet.......
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Gilbane Building Company named PAETEC developer; New Website launched by City
June 2007 RDDC Staff The PAETEC Holding Company has named Gilbane Building Company of Rhode Island to act as the developer of its headquarters site at the former Midtown Plaza site in downtown Rochester, New York. Bordered by Euclid, Broad, Clinton, and Main Streets, the former plaza is widely anticipated to be redeveloped as a mixed-use site jointly administered by the Empire State Development Corporation and the City. Gilbane's experience includes extensive work in the County of San Diego and the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, the City of Rochester has launched Midtown Rochester Rising , a website aimed at facilitating the rapid flow of information and communication to the numerous developers, neighboring enterprises, and business and community groups with interest in the site. Click here for a related City of Rochester press release.
2 Midtown businesses to move to the Alliance Building
April 7, 2008 Staff Reports Democrat & Chronicle Two longtime Midtown Plaza tenants will be moving their businesses a little more than a block west on Main Street. Fauna‰s Gifts & Vintage Toys and Whelpley & Paul Opticians will relocate to the Alliance Building
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Duffy to Rochester: Shop Midtown
March 27, 2008 Alex Crichton WXXI Public Broadcasting Mayor Bob Duffy is encouraging resident to continue patronizing Midtown Plaza, despite plans to raze the site to make room for PAETEC's new headquarters.
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Strong Support for New Governor at Midtown
March 21, 2008 Susan Ashline 13Wham.com Governor David Patterson drew a big crowd Thursday afternoon at Midtown Plaza where he guaranteed state funds to demolish the Plaza.
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City Moves to Condemn Midtown Plaza
March 18, 2008 Steve Orr Democrat & Chronicle The city of Rochester began condemnation proceedings today against the owners of Midtown Plaza, a necessary next step toward demolishing the downtown mall to make way for PAETEC Holding Corp.âs new headquarters.
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Lt. Governor Patterson reassures Duffy of Commitment
March 12, 2008 Brian Sharp & Jill Terreri Democrat & Chronicle Staff Writers On the morning of Feb. 13, Gov. Eliot Spitzer was in downtown Rochester, surrounded by business, government and labor leaders for a rally promoting his $1 billion upstate revitalization fund. Spitzer championed the investment as "a critical piece of what I want to get done this year."
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Midtown Plaza's price tag: $13.5M
February 6, 2008 Brian Sharp Democrat & Chronicle Staff Writer Mayor Robert Duffy is offering $5.9 million to buy Midtown Plaza and estimates the city could spend $6 million to help relocate the existing tenants.
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Public Projects, big frustrations: Are we jinxed?
February 4, 2008 Steve Orr Democrat & Chronicle Staff Writer Early last week, it came to light that the Rochester Rhinos, deeply in debt, could lose their taxpayer-financed soccer stadium. Late last week, word arrived that millions of dollars in state funding had been stripped from another big local project, Renaissance Square. The events dredged up memories of the high-speed ferry debacle and raised one prominent question: Why do so many of Rochester's high-profile projects seem to founder?
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City Hires Design Firm for Midtown Plaza Project
January 16, 2008 Bud Lowell WXXI Another step has been taken in the eventual demolition and redevelopment of the Midtown Mall property. The Rochester City Council voted last night to hire the local design firm of Labella Associates to begin environmental and other planning for the project.
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Latest Trend in Malls: No Walls
January 4, 2008 Matthew Daneman USA Today For 46 years, it has been a holiday tradition at Midtown Plaza mall in Rochester, N.Y., for children to ride on the monorail that circles the atrium, going past the tall, decorated tree and the area where they could later sit on Santa's lap. If all goes according to plan, the mall, among the first built in the 1960s to lure shoppers back from the growing suburban retail areas, won't make it to a 47th holiday season. It is slated to be demolished this year to make way for a new headquarters for telecommunications firm PAETEC Holding Corp....
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