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RocLinks 12/20/14
Saturday, December 20th, 2014Tags: 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
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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 »
