{"id":12245,"date":"2016-03-19T16:01:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T20:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=12245"},"modified":"2016-03-19T16:01:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T20:01:57","slug":"roclinks-31916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2016\/03\/roclinks-31916\/","title":{"rendered":"RocLinks 3\/19\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cleaning at Rochester's Lower Falls [PHOTO: The Lower Falls Foundation]\" rel=\"lightbox-roclinks20161903\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/denker\/links\/Cleaning_Rochester_Lower_Falls.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom:6px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/denker\/links\/Cleaning_Rochester_Lower_Falls.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Cleaning at Rochester's Lower Falls [PHOTO: The Lower Falls Foundation]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><i>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2009\/01\/contributors\/#about-matthew-denker\">Matthew Denker<\/a><\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<p>From local development to just plain news of the weird, here are your RocLinks for this past week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Moment of Silence<\/h3>\n<p>Our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and associates of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2016\/03\/14\/developer-anthony-costello-dies\/81775290\/\" target=\"_new\">Mr. Anthony Costello.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> I know I haven&#8217;t always agreed with the developments he and his company chose to pursue, but there is no arguing the indelible mark he has left on the Rochester community. <\/p>\n<h3>Fall(s) Cleaning<\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for some good old fashioned volunteer fun, consider joining the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowerfallsfdn.org\" target=\"_new\">Lower Falls Foundation<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> tomorrow to help clean, well, the lower falls. Everyone will be meeting at the Maplewood Rose Garden Parking Lot at 2 pm to spend 2 hours cleaning. Refreshments and supplies will be provided.<\/p>\n<h3>From the Department of Eye Searing<\/h3>\n<p>New developments in Rochester (and really everywhere) are often questioned on their aesthetics. And while there&#8217;s really no accounting for taste, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/design\/2016\/03\/the-tackiest-architecture-vasily-klyukin-cobra-tower\/473946\/\" target=\"_new\">here are some truly tacky buildingss<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> to temper one&#8217;s architectural views.<\/p>\n<h3>Ongoing Filling In<\/h3>\n<p>The city <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbj.net\/article.asp?aID=224797\" target=\"_new\">has finally released<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> its RFP(s) for the development of the new land created by the Inner Loop fill in. If you&#8217;re interested in reading the actual RFP(s), it (they) can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofrochester.gov\/article.aspx?id=8589968105\" target=\"_new\">here.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> From my reading, there are no major surprises so far.<\/p>\n<h3>Outside Opinion<\/h3>\n<p>And finally, the Rose Fellowship program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlc.org\/media-center\/news-search\/rose-center-for-public-leadership-working-with-mayor-warren-on-downtown-revitalization\" target=\"_new\">evaluated Rochester<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> this year, and the didn&#8217;t say anything you probably wouldn&#8217;t have expected them to if you&#8217;re a site regular.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin:20px 0px 20px 0px\">\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/div>\n<p>As always, use the comments below as open discussion for anything in these links \u2013 or let us know if there\u2019s a topic you\u2019d like to see us hit more aggressively in future RocLinks. Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matthew Denker From local development to just plain news of the weird, here are your RocLinks for this past week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3095,114,79],"tags":[1959,60,155,210,1482,2843,1643,151,3777,59],"class_list":["post-12245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture-2","category-rochester_news","category-urban_development","tag-aj-costello-son","tag-architecture","tag-city-of-rochester","tag-development","tag-lower-falls","tag-matt-denker","tag-matthew-denker","tag-rochester-ny","tag-rose-fellowship","tag-urban-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12245"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12287,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions\/12287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}