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...

By Kevin Oklobzija December 17, 2019

In opening a virtual financial center in Sibley Square, Bank of America has stepped out of the past and into the future.

While the company has 300 employees in the Rochester area, this branch at...

By Avital Andrews November 25, 2019

In a single lifetime, no traveler could ever be done exploring America. Even if you relegated yourself to just roaming the nation’s cities—setting aside the 50 states’ vast open, unincorporated spac...

November 25, 2019

Rochester—New York’s third-biggest city—is in the midst of a revival. The midsized metropolis on Lake Ontario’s south shore has always been the entry point to the Finger Lakes wine region. But now it’s seeing new lev...

By Diana Louise Carter November 15, 2019

City, state and federal officials held a ceremony Thursday afternoon to mark the start of construction on the Commissary Downtown Kitchen Incubator in Sibley Square. The incubator kitchen is ex...

By WHAM November 15th 2019

Rochester, N.Y. – Construction is underway on Rochester’s downtown kitchen incubator.

“The Commissary” will be located at Sibley Square, and will feature a commercial-grade kitchen.

As 13WHAM has prev...

By Randy Gorbman • November 15, 2019

Construction has begun for an operation called Monroe County’s first-ever food business incubator.

It’s called The Commissary, and it is basically a facility that will provide high-end commerc...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — Rochester’s first food incubator business broke ground on Thursday.

It’s called “The Commissary,” and it’s a shared space where companies can make market products and hold cooking classes.

It will be in a n...

By: Kevin Oklobzija October 14, 2019

Strength Solutions Inc., an Olean-based nonprofit, recently received a grant from WinnCompanies and Sibley Square to provide scholarships to participants in its strengthbased technology programs....

Venture Jobs Foundation will relocate from their current location in Pittsford to the recently renovated Sibley Square in downtown Rochester. Sibley Square — emerging as a hub for entrepreneurs, startups and innovation — is a natural fi...

ROCHESTER, NY – October 4, 2019 – The Community Design Center Rochester announced today that sixteen nominations were received for the 2019 Reshaping Rochester awards for Urban Innovation and Activism. Nominations were made by the publi...

In the 1970s and early 1980s, New York City’s Bryant Park was a dangerous place to be.

Whether people were walking through the park next to the New York Public Library, or along the streets nearby, they risked becoming victim to purse...

The U.S. government spends about 0.7 percent of GDP on scientific research and development, down from 2 percent in the 1960s. Less investment means fewer chances for breakthroughs like the weapon-seeking robots that saved thousands of so...