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The Northwest Neighborhood Service Center has moved back to its offices at 71 Parkway. The center had been temporarily located on Jay Street since January. The Northwest Neighborhood Service Center is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Nominations are being accepted for the Community Design Center’s fourth annual Reshaping Rochester Awards. The awards recognize exemplary regional initiatives and projects that positively impact people, neighborhoods and the nine-county Rochester region. Nominations must be submitted before 5 p.m. June ...

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Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, professor of clinical psychiatry and professor of clinical sociomedical sciences at Columbia University, will speak at the next Reshaping Rochester lecture. The event is scheduled for 7 to 9 p.m. April 30, at Gleason Works Auditorium, ...

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Former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be the keynote speaker at the Rochester Regional Community Design Center’s “Reshaping Rochester” luncheon, 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. March 19, at the Inn on Broadway, 26 Broadway. Menino will talk about his experiences ...

Cities that are designed to make it easy for residents to walk and bike tend to have healthier residents and are more environmentally friendly than communities in the suburbs. Think less driving, less obesity, fewer incidences of diseases such as ...

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The two-week voting period for the “Voice of the Citizen” public safety budgeting has begun. Mayor Thomas S. Richards dedicated up to $200,000 — up to $50,000 per city quadrant — to be spent on projects that were wholly created ...

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A once vacant lot at the entrance to the Dewey-Lexington neighborhood in Rochester is now something more — “the Gateway.” City officials joined landscape designers Pietro Furgiuele of Waterford Tilling, Sharon Coates and Bruce Zaretsky of Zaretsky and Associates to ...

History is more than just the fancy places where important people slept or signed important documents. It’s also about the everyday places where folks gathered, every day. Where people lived and worked, raised families or visited friends. Parks, stores and ...

The first two projects of the Rochester Regional Design Center’s new Development Design Fund Program are a history museum and a school, both in distressed Northeast neighborhoods in the city of Rochester. The program provides professional architectural and planning services ...

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The dates and schedule for Clean Sweep 2013, the award-winning Rochester beautification program powered by hundreds of citizen volunteers and city Environmental Services crews, have been announced by Mayor Thomas S. Richards. Since the program was launched in 2006, more ...

If Michael Visconte had his way, he’d get rid of the empty lots on Lyell Avenue and urge the city to enact a moratorium on new ones. Then, he’d bring in new businesses. “No barbershops that stay open until 3 ...

Once a thriving city in the Smoky Mountains, Asheville, N.C., went through a decades-long downturn. High debt and mistakes in government all seemed to be in the past when the opportunity to build highways came to pass in the mid-1970s. ...

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