This article was scraped from Rochester Subway. This is a blog about Rochester history and urbanism has not been published since 2017. The current owners are now publishing link spam which made me want to preserve this history.. The original article was published December 20, 2014 and can be found here.
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From local development to just plain news of the weird, here are your RocLinks for this past week...
Tech Boom
High Tech Rochester has chosen to move
its incubator operation into the Winn-renovated Sibley Building. This is excellent news for downtown, although the inclusion of 'wet' facilities for biotech seems a little over the top.
Whiplash
In what can only be called a wild turn of events, Pittsford has decided
they will build a park instead of the large mixed-use development Mark IV had been planning. The announcement is confusing, though, because the park is shown as co-existing with the development in many images, and Mark IV has already gone through the lawsuit process once (and won the right) to build. It's unclear how a park will happen without Mark IV handing the land back over.
You Could Go with This...
You may recall a recent post here about Parcel 5 over at Midtown. Well the city managed to get $100k slipped into a state aid package
to study putting a PAC here. I can only hope it looks more like Symphony House in Philadelphia, and less like any recent PAC plans for Rochester.
In Service
Did you know Rochester is ranked third in volunteer hours per capita
among major US metros?
Arm(ory)ed and Ready
Finally, be sure to watch this short video
about the Culver Road Armory. * * *
As always, use the comments below as open discussion for anything in these links - or let us know if there's a topic you'd like to see us hit more aggressively in future RocLinks. Have a great weekend everyone!
