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Midtown Plaza. Midtown Plaza is a city district in downtown Rochester, New York. The site was originally occupied by an indoor shopping mall designed by Victor Gruen and opened in 1962. Although it was primarily promoted as a retail space, Gruen's vision was for the plaza to function as an all-purpose community space to revitalize the downtown ...
Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Company, known informally as Sibley's, was a Rochester, New York –based department store chain with stores located exclusively in the state of New York. Its flagship store, at 228 East Main Street in downtown Rochester, also housed its headquarters and featured an elegant executive dining room on the top floor.
Midtown Plaza brought many people downtown, but it would soon become a victim of suburbanization. From the 1960s into the 1980s, suburban shopping malls such as Eastview Mall in Victor and The Marketplace Mall in Henrietta opened up. McCurdy's and Forman's closed in 1994. Their closing was quickly followed by the closing of the Midtown branch ...
Clock of Nations beloved in Rochester NY From 1962: The veil is dropped on the Clock of Nations at Midtown Plaza. Standing 28 feet tall, the clock has four faces and is encircled by 12 cylindrical ...
GEM, a forerunner of Costco, was a huge department/grocery store in Rochester in the 1960-70s. Families loved it. GEM offered Rochester a different shopping experience during Midtown's, Sibley's ...
Tower 280 at Midtown. / 43.155627; -77.604378. Tower280 at Midtown, formerly known as Midtown Tower, is a high-rise building in downtown Rochester, New York, United States. It contains luxury apartments as well as a top floor penthouse with office space and retail space and a restaurant on the bottom three levels.
B. Forman Co. (1968-1994) McCurdy's (formally McCurdy and Company) was a Rochester, New York –based department store. Founded in 1901, the company was acquired by May Department Stores in 1994, but as a result of an antitrust settlement due to both McCurdy's and May's Kaufmann's stores being the predominant anchors in the area shopping malls ...
PAETEC Headquarters was a building proposed and approved for construction in Rochester, New York. It was to serve as the new headquarters for the Rochester-based telecommunications company, PAETEC Holding Corp. Its original proposed height was 40 floors, with a LEED-certified rooftop garden and was originally slated for completion in 2012.