renaissance square

by Mary Anna Towler July 10, 2009

Unless Renaissance Square leaders are willing to compromise, they'll have a hard time getting City Council to approve legislation to let the project move ahead.

http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/news/articles/2009/07/REN-SQUARE-C...

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andrew stainton said on Jul. 11, 2009 at 9:40pm

Mayor Duffy ready to deal on Ren. Square
from CH 10 website
http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S1021896.shtml?cat=566

Mayor Bob Duffy told News 10NBC’s Berkeley Brean moments ago that he is ready to negotiate a deal on Renaissance Square that will save the $24 million in federal dollars already earmarked for the project.

The mayor and City Council held a strategy meeting this morning where they decided to draft legislation that will help save the money.

Mayor's office doesn't believe Ren Square threats from CH 10 website

http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S1020348.shtml?cat=566

The drop dead deadline for Renaissance Square is July 31. If city council doesn't act by then, the project as you know it is gone. The mayor's office doesn't believe it.

News 10NBC just spoke with Mayor Duffy's spokesman Gary Walker. He called the deadline a "scare tactic" saying City Hall does not "believe the money will be lost."

- Watch interview with RGRTA CEO Mark Aesch
- Click here to read letter from RGRTA's Aesch to Mayor Bob Duffy.

No time to lose
Leaders must resolve RenSquare concerns.
Democrat & Chronicle
July 9, 2009

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090709/OPINION04/907090324...

After more than a decade of planning, the Renaissance Square project is fast approaching its next crucial deadline. All parties involved should try hard to comply.

But the reality is that project leaders face a big hurdle: convincing the mayor and city council that Renaissance Square is the right project for a blighted part of Main Street.

For Rochester
Regarding plans for Renaissance Square
by Bill Reed

HARRY DAVIS
GUEST ESSAYIST

April 19, 2005
Cost of Iraq war is hitting right here at home
Edition: Metro
Section: Speaking Out
from the Democrat & Chronicle

Everyone knows that aircraft carriers, tanks, helicopters and other weapons of war cost, and keep costing, the federal taxpayers billions of dollars in taxes.