The Sibley building’s new Mercantile on Main pays homage to the past, takes a step into the future

In 1911, dozens of businesses around Rochester bought special ads in the paper to announce a change in address. “Come visit our new loc...

The exterior of the building remains mostly familiar, but the most dramatic transformation has taken place behind the bricks, away from the public eye. As a result, impressions from the past linger. “From the outside nothing’s changed,” ...

Marcia Greenwood Rochester Democrat and Chronicle USA TODAY NETWORK

Throughout its history, Sibley’s brought in celebrities to drive traffic to its flagship location downtown at 228 E. Main St. In November 1956, five years after an O...

Behind its familiar brick facade, Sibley Square is well on its way to a stunning transformation

The task was straightforward but daunting: Turn a largely vacant and neglected, centuryold retail behemoth into a modern and nimble, inte...

by Rachel Laber

The newest addition to Rochester’s renowned food scene features a flavor for every palate. Meet the Mercantile on Main, the first food hall in Rochester – and one of the largest food halls in upstate New York.

Locat...

BY BRIANNA HAMBLIN

When you go to the Sibley Square building in downtown Rochester, you'll find a variety of new food vendors ready to serve you a diverse array of food and drinks.

The “Mercantile on Main” food hall is officially ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — Despite a pandemic that has shut down dozens of area restaurants, a project years in the making is looking toward the future—The Mercantile on Main.

"I am most excited about having everyone experience pho for ...

BY JONATHAN HUNTER

When you go to the Sibley Square Building in downtown Rochester, you'll find a variety of new food vendors ready to serve you affordable food.

Construction of the Mercantile on Main food hall is finished and it...

Rochester, N.Y. — Something old has been turned into something new for our city.

The Mercantile on Main is Rochester's new urban food hall, opening Monday inside the historic Sibley Building.

Kris Betts took us inside the new devel...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A piece of Rochester history is once again hanging in the old Sibley building.

The Sibley clock has been restored and reinstalled.

Sibley Square posted the pictures on social media Wednesday saying generations of...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A new grocery chain has opening in Rochester’s newly renovated Sibley Square, providing a section of produce in an area of Rochester where fresh groceries are scarce.

DGX Grocery opened its doors this past wee...

by WHAM StaffThursday, November 26th 2020

(WHAM) - A new small grocery store is open for shoppers in downtown Rochester.

DGX Grocery opened this week inside Sibley Square. The 3,300-square-foot store carries a mixture of items, fro...

October 7, 2020

Rochester, N.Y. — Glimpes of old are part of the new Sibley Square project.

The former department store that is part of Rochester lore - particularly at holiday time - has found new life as a mixed-used project.

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August 27, 2020

ROCHESTER, NY (August 27, 2020) – WinnCompanies, an award-winning multifamily developer and property manager, today celebrated the opening of 104 workforce apartments inside Liberty Lofts at Sibley Square. This opening...

By Randy Gorbman August 27, 2020

Officials have announced the completion of more downtown housing located in the historic Sibley building.

It’s called Liberty Lofts, 104 apartments at what is now called Sibley Square, developed by ...

By Spectrum News Staff August 27, 2020

A ribbon-cutting Thursday marked the completion of a four-year re-development project at the historic Sibley Square building in Downtown Rochester.

The $30.3 million Liberty Lofts project saw ...

By Eriketa Cost August 27, 2020

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Those who have lived in Rochester long enough remember Sibley Square as a place that used to bustle with business, retail, a Christmas monorail across the street and even a Wegmans. Bu...

by WHAM August 27, 2020

Rochester, N.Y. – Local and state leaders marked the completion of new housing units in downtown Rochester Thursday.

The Liberty Lofts are located at Sibley Square and includes units for middle-income househ...

BY JONATHAN HUNTER ROCHESTER PUBLISHED 5:37 PM ET MAR. 03, 2020 UPDATED 5:52 PM ET MAR. 03, 2020

Liberty Lofts is set to be the newest residential community at Sibley Square when it opens at the end of March, according to Sibley Squa...

By Mike Costanza February 27, 2020

Luis Carrasquillo dreams of supplying a food from his childhood to large numbers of businesses or people.

“Our main goal is to produce, and to be the biggest wholesale distributor of, empanadas in...