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 April 30, 2016 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...
Public Market(ing)!
Coming over the next 8 months, a rather spectacular renovation
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to the public market kicked off this week. 13,000 square feet of new indoor space and room for 48 more vendors outdoors should be great.
Local Drinks
Black Button Distilling has apparently been working on eating my dreams. With the announcement of lilac gin
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it's the only plausible conclusion. I hope I'm able to get some.
Let's Go Fly a Kite
If you're looking for something fun to do tomorrow, allow me to offer up the kite celebration
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at Ontario Beach. It sounds a little breezy, but is sure to be fun.
Upstate Dreaming
And finally, high speed rail for Rochester.
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What else is there to say? It'd be great, but I'd be surprised to see it happen. * * *
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!