From local development to just plain news of the weird, here are your RocLinks for this past week…
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RocLinks 6/18/16
Saturday, June 18th, 2016Tags: Buffalo, Buffalo Rising Online, Matt Denker, Matthew Denker, Midtown Parcel 5, Mike Puma, Performing Arts Center, RocLinks, Sibley Building, Spaghetti Warehouse, Tilt, Winn Development
Posted in Architecture, Rochester News, Urban Development | 4 Comments »

RocLinks 12/20/14
Saturday, December 20th, 2014From local development to just plain news of the weird, here are your RocLinks for this past week…
Tags: Culver Road Armory, development, Downtown Innovation Zone (DIZ), High Tech Incubator, Mark IV, Mark IV Construction, Midtown, Midtown Rising, Pittsford, Rochester, Rochester NY, RocLinks, Sibley Building, volunteer, web sites, Winn Development, WinnCompanies
Posted in Rochester News | 8 Comments »

The VERY Tall Tale of Jack & His Beanstalk… Now at the Sibley Building
Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
Local balloon artists Larry Moss and Kelly Cheatle are hard at work right now constructing an enormous, 5-story tall beanstalk entirely out of balloons in the atrium of Rochester’s landmark Sibley Building.
Unlike previous haunted “Balloon Manors” you may remember at area shopping malls, admission is completely free for the public to come and enjoy this one. Balloon Manor: The VERY Tall Tale of Jack and his Beanstalk is due to be completed today, and open for viewing thru Sunday, February 9…
Tags: Airigami, art, Balloon Manor, balloon sculpture, downtown Rochester, Joseph Eddy, Kelly Cheatle, Larry Moss, Martha Stewart, Rochester, Rochester NY, Sibley Building, Sibley's, The Very Tall Tale of Jack & His Beanstalk, Winn Development
Posted in Art + Culture, Events, Rochester Destinations, Rochester News, Video | 3 Comments »

Deep Inside Rochester’s Big Old Sibley Building
Monday, November 18th, 2013
This former department store (Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Company) is truly massive. Rochester’s Sibley Building weighs in at over 1.1 million square feet (23 acres of floorspace) – easily the largest building in Monroe County.
WinnCompanies out of Boston now owns the property and plans to spend up to $200 Million over the next five years to bring it back to life as mixed-use space. Holy smokes, do these guys have their work cut out for them. You may have noticed new windows and awnings along Main Street? Some 2,000 windows have yet to be replaced.
Last week the UofR Urban Explorers Club went on a tour through the maze of hallways and spaces, from the dark sub-basement all the way up to the two massive water tanks on the tower rooftop…
Tags: abandoned places, downtown Rochester, EZ-net, Main Street, Rochester, Rochester NY, Sibley Building, Sibley's, Sibley's Department Store, Sibly Lindsay & Curr Co., University of Rochester, urban exploration, urban explorers, UrbEx Club, Winn Development, WinnCompanies
Posted in Rochester Destinations, Rochester History, Rochester Images, Urban Development, Urban Exploration | 122 Comments »
