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1. rochester_veteran says:

   March 12, 2014 at 2:49 pm

   Why not just keep it named Midtown Plaza?

2. RochesterSubway.com says:

   March 12, 2014 at 2:57 pm

   @Veteran, I think I agree with you.

3. rochester_veteran says:

   March 12, 2014 at 3:05 pm

   I used to hang out in Midtown Plaza in its glory days when I was a kid. Happening place back in the day! Ever eat at the McCurdy’s restaurant that was on the terrace? Great people watching spot!

4. RochesterSubway.com says:

   March 12, 2014 at 3:14 pm

   I didn’t get to experience it until the late 1990’s. I worked in the Sibley Building and would often walk over for lunch. One day while eating an amazing meatball wrap in the food court, a couple of teenagers sitting at the table next to me started laughing wildly about something. Then one of them dropped something that made a clinking sound against the tile floor… I looked down to find a small caliber hand gun spinning around on the ground. That was the last time I ate in the food court.

5. rochester_veteran says:

   March 12, 2014 at 3:34 pm

   That would have freaked me out as well! The era I was describing was back in the late 60s and early 70s. Although even then there was an edge at Midtown, it wasn’t that bad, all the stores were occupied. Even in the early 80s after I moved back to Rochester, it was pretty decent.

6. Powers says:

   March 12, 2014 at 5:06 pm

   I think if we called the plaza “Midtown” people would get confused, since the old Midtown Plaza was an indoor shopping mall while this plaza is going to be an outdoor recreation space.

   The street, though — it used to be Elm Street before Midtown was built. Why not restore its name, as they did with the reincarnated Cortland Street?

7. Debi says:

   March 12, 2014 at 6:58 pm

   As confusing at it sounds, we used to be the Flour City, now the Flower City. We could keep the name Midtown Plaza, spinning the “plaza” that used to be an indoor shopping center as the “plaza” that’s now a outdoor green space.

   For the street, I like the idea of continuing Elm Street as was.

8. Ed Cramp says:

   March 12, 2014 at 8:24 pm

   Elm Street will still start on Chestnut Street as it does now, but will end on South Clinton Avenue, following the more straight path through the intersection created by the addition of the new section of road adjacent to the plaza in area A on the map above. So the rest of what is now Elm Street, which is now a separate street shown above as area B, is what needs a new name.

9. John Lam says:

   March 12, 2014 at 8:54 pm

   Developers have a tradition of naming their projects after what they destroy. Think “wood cliff” or “willow brook”. Thus, for what gives it popularity or what it evokes, name it “Midtown Plaza”.

   🙂

10. Matt says:

    March 13, 2014 at 8:23 am

    Maybe Costco Plaza since that’s the most important thing missing from the city?

11. RochesterSubway.com says:

    March 13, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    UPDATE:

    Earlier this week I told you that the City of Rochester is seeking your naming suggestions for a new street and plaza being built at the Midtown site. Unfortunately this story was posted a bit too early and the submission form was not in working order.

    If you already submitted your naming ideas, please take a minute to fill out the form one more time, including your name and contact info.

    And if you haven’t already, you have until March 31 to get your ideas in!

    Visit Cityofrochester.gov/namemidtown

12. Julie says:

    March 14, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    I suggested ‘The Plaza at Midtown’ (to honor the location’s past), and ‘Nations Way’ (to honor the Clock of Nations)

13. rochester_veteran says:

    March 16, 2014 at 10:48 am

    I suggested not changing the name and keeping it “Midtown Plaza”, but as someone earlier here suggested, I thought McCurdy Way would be a fitting name for the street given the significance that McCurdy’s was in the old Plaza.

14. Carl says:

    March 24, 2014 at 8:55 pm

    McCurdy Place, Forman Grove. Not original, but appropriate, I think. We should remember Frank (?) McCurdy. He held out for downtown beyond the last minute, after everyone else gave up.

15. RochesterSubway.com says:

    April 22, 2014 at 8:05 pm

    Announced last night…

    The new street will be named Andrew Langston Way after the late founder of WDKX-FM, one of the first African-American-owned radio stations in New York.

    The open space will be called Midtown Commons.

    Why it couldn’t just be named Midtown Plaza is beyond me.

16. Powers says:

    April 22, 2014 at 9:40 pm

    When did we start having to name things using first and last names? We used to have streets named using surnames only. Why the completely unwieldy “Andrew Langston Way” instead of the simple “Langston Street”?

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