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1. Jordan Frohlinger says:

   June 7, 2012 at 5:45 pm

   Sad that there is no way to save it. 🙁

2. RochesterSubway.com says:

   June 7, 2012 at 6:38 pm

   We tried.

3. Erik Stoneham says:

   June 7, 2012 at 7:18 pm

   We did try. I noticed the other day that I can see the top of the building from N. Water Street. Took a picture with my phone. memories….

4. Jay says:

   June 8, 2012 at 7:13 am

   For what it’s worth, NAB let Greenovation in to save parts of the interior, including some old brewery fixtures, architectural elements, old ad proofs, and (of course) the bar!. If anyone is interested in taking a look these items are on display at 1199 E. Main St.

5. Rick says:

   June 8, 2012 at 9:23 am

   Anyone able to guess how long the actual demolition will take? A day, week, or longer? I’m trying to figure out if I’ll be able to get over and get some shots of the work being done… TIA!

6. RochesterSubway.com says:

   June 8, 2012 at 4:59 pm

   @Jay, there were some wooden (possibly cypress) fermentation casks in the lower levels. Any idea what happened to those?

7. Mike Battle says:

   June 15, 2012 at 3:24 am

   I was just over there this past week.
   There is construction underway that made it hard to take many photos, but I got to thinking…it would be nice to find a 3D computer model artist to create a digital replica of the building. If enough photos were taken, capturing as many details as possible (brick patterns, # of courses, etc..), along with the blue prints (if available) it could recreate the building so that it isn’t completely forgotten once destroyed.

8. RochesterSubway.com says:

   June 15, 2012 at 10:48 am

   @Mike, good to hear from you. If you find a 3D artist who wants to do it I’m sure we could hook him up with enough photos and drawings to piece it together. The brewery was also asked by the Zoning Board to have a scale model built of the building (as part of the conditions for demolition). We’ll see if they follow thru on it.

9. Rick says:

   June 19, 2012 at 9:58 am

   I walked by the Cataract buildings today. It looks like they’re prepping the buildings to come down; Taking out windows, parts of the roof, etc… I was told by one NAB employee, they plan on demolishing the building into it’s own basement and then bringing in fill to finish the job. He said there’s a basement and then 2 additional sub basements below it they need to fill in.

   No one I talked to there could tell me when the knocking down part will happen. I couldn’t get near any of the demo guys to ask them…

10. RochesterSubway.com says:

    June 19, 2012 at 10:11 am

    The latest from the construction workers on site is this…. They will start with the smaller 2-story building first. That could take up to a week. Next, they’ll remove the metal addition to 13 Cataract. Finally, 13 Cataract itself. So depending on how fast the smaller building comes down, 13 might not begin for a week or more. Wish I could pin it down with more detail.

    Follow us at Facebook.com/RocSubway or Twitter for spur of the moment updates.

11. RochesterSubway.com says:

    June 20, 2012 at 10:28 am

    ALERT: 13 Cataract is coming down right now (10am, 6/20)! If you were looking to get pictures or say a prayer, you need to be there right away.

12. Renee says:

    June 20, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    We had dinner with a bunch of friends at La Luna Friday night overlooking the falls and a view of Cataract. We took a walk over the bridge (gorgeous night) to pay our last respects and take some photos. I took them with my cell phone, so they aren’t good by any means, but I’ll post them on our site when I blog about it.

13. RochesterSubway.com says:

    June 20, 2012 at 2:47 pm

    That’s great! Looking forward to seeing your post Renee! I went out there today and got some video of the carnage. Security guard over there said the demo will take at least a few days. It’s painfully slow. Agonizing.

14. Claire says:

    June 20, 2012 at 3:20 pm

    Just paid a visit over there. Roof was off an hour ago. Erie and so very sad. Interestingly enough, not one word of this on any of the media channels and this deadful news was only disclosed by Rochester Subway. It was a long tough road with this one and many lessons have been learned.

15. Renee says:

    June 20, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    You know, Claire. I had the exact same thought — why haven’t any of the news outlets been out there covering it? I tried to find some links and pics from some of the media channels when I wrote my blog post earlier and couldn’t find anything.

16. RochesterSubway.com says:

    June 20, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    Some stuff is on http://SaveCataract.com. But the brewery’s PR firm, Eric Mower Associates, hit the media very hard with visions of a spectacular new visitor center and millions of dollars in local investment and jobs. Even if half that money is used towards the demolition and those jobs are about 10 part time ones, it doesn’t matter. Money talks. An empty building is just an empty building.

    The blogosphere has a very important role to play in this country as our mainstream media becomes less and less interested in doing actual journalism. Us little guys CAN make a big impact and I believe this story is proof of that. We didn’t get the outcome we would have liked, but if not for local bloggers 95% of this story would not have been aired. Rocville.com, heckeranddecker.wordpress.com, even therochesterian.com and others need to be working over time just to compensate for today’s soundbite media. Cover the stories YOU want to cover and go after people in positions of power for answers to those unasked questions. Post public documents and hold our leadership accountable when others won’t. It may not be the popular thing to do (and I know I’ve lost many readers over this Cataract thing) but our city will gain in the long run. Enough ranting.

17. Rick says:

    June 21, 2012 at 2:31 am

    I took some snapshots and posted them to the Cataract Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/cataract/

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