Two new Amazon facilities just 1.2 miles apart on Rochester’s west side are on schedule for the start of operations in the fourth quarter of 2022, the company says. Construction cranes surround the massive 2.6 million-square-foot warehouse and distribution center ...
Read More »Affordable housing likely to become a more attractive investment
Proposed legislation, a late-2020 law change and a possible bump in the corporate tax rate all should turn out to be beneficial for the affordable housing industry as objectives of the Biden administration play out. When the federal corporate tax rate ...
Read More »Union job goes to Manning Squires Hennig
Rochester Carpenters Local 276 is undergoing a major renovation, which will result in major improvements to its 22,500-square-foot training center in Rochester. To handle the $2,030,000 project, the union has selected commercial contractor Manning Squires Hennig as its general contractor. ...
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Read More »Home construction slumps on fewer apartment buildings
Apartment construction plunged sharply in October, as the pace of homebuilding slipped amid a broader cooling of the real estate market. Housing starts — both houses and apartments— fell last month 11 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of ...
Read More »MCC’s Rochester campus enters 2nd construction phase
The downtown campus now being built for Monroe Community College inside a former Kodak building represents more than just a new use for an old building downtown. Committing to build the campus at 321 State St., in four connected buildings ...
Read More »DiMarco Constructors to build Webster medical facility
DiMarco Constructors of Rochester has been awarded the construction contract for Webster Family Medicine. A project of the University of Rochester Medicine Primary Care, its construction is underway at BayTowne, 1900 Empire Blvd., Penfield. It is expected to be completed ...
Read More »Manning Squires adds managers
Manning Squires Hennig, a Batavia-based commercial construction firm, has named Samantha Nickerson as its new chief financial officer and Brian Kelly as senior project manager. Nickerson has 15 years of accounting experience and five years as CFO at Genesee Country ...
Read More »LeChase announces promotion, staff addition
LeChase Construction Services announced several staff changes, promoting Kevin Dooley to senior project manager and Barbara S. Sauer to corporate controller, and adding Scott Baker as project superintendent, all in the Rochester office. Dooley joined LeChase in 2004 as a ...
Read More »RG&E supporting Midtown development
Officials from Midtown Tower LLC Tuesday received a ceremonial big check from Rochester Gas & Electric. The $500,000 grant will support electric infrastructure improvements made during the $59 million renovation of the 17-floor, 408,904-square-foot Tower at Midtown, 280 E. Broad ...
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Read More »Women in Construction celebrates 30 years
The Greater Rochester Chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction will celebrate its 30th year in Rochester with a dinner at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Rochester Yacht Club. NAWIC has been helping women since 1953 take advantage ...
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