{"id":12361,"date":"2016-05-07T14:41:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T18:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=12361"},"modified":"2016-05-07T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T18:41:37","slug":"roclinks-5716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2016\/05\/roclinks-5716\/","title":{"rendered":"RocLinks 5\/7\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Genesee Crossroads Park [PHOTO: Author]\" rel=\"lightbox-roclinks20160705\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/denker\/links\/Genesee_Crossroads_Park.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom:6px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/denker\/links\/Genesee_Crossroads_Park.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Genesee Crossroads Park [PHOTO: Author]\" 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>More Like No-cery Store<\/h3>\n<p>Well, it seems we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2016\/05\/02\/neighbors-lose-aldi-challenge-may-appeal\/83839490\/\" target=\"_blank\">one step closer <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 an Aldi in North Winton Village.  We&#8217;ve written about the project at length <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2015\/03\/filling-in-aldi\/\">before<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2015\/09\/filling-in-aldi-revisted\/\">updates <\/a>to it, and about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2015\/03\/aldi-plan-in-north-winton-village\/\">Aldi in general<\/a>, so there&#8217;s not much more for us to say at this point. I guess good luck to both the neighbors and the developers, and I hope it works out for everyone in the end.<\/p>\n<h3>Reduce, Rebuy, Recycle<\/h3>\n<p>In what can only be thought of as a sad indictment of our state&#8217;s funding and budgetary policies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whec.com\/news\/monroe-community-college-downtown-campus-funding-furniture\/4125785\/\" target=\"_new\">MCC is buying all new furniture<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> for the new downtown campus. I suppose it&#8217;ll at least look nice.<\/p>\n<h3>Overlook This!<\/h3>\n<p>Thrillist has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/travel\/nation\/underrated-us-cities-small-markets-like-cincinnati-mobile-and-chattanooga\" target=\"_new\">named 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> one of the most overlooked cities in the country. Thanks guys, and great photo too!<\/p>\n<h3>Bottoms Up<\/h3>\n<p>And finally,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochestercitynewspaper.com\/rochester\/rochester-cocktail-revival-returns-for-its-third-year\/Content?oid=2790522\" target=\"_new\">Cocktail Revival Week is back! <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> Need I say more? Sure, why not &#8211; go. It&#8217;s going to be great, and next Friday there&#8217;s even a cocktails and James Bond shindig at the George Eastman Museum.<\/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":12366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114,79],"tags":[3231,3809,3810,2843,1643,73,2517,3015],"class_list":["post-12361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rochester_news","category-urban_development","tag-aldi","tag-cocktail-revival-week","tag-george-eastman-museum","tag-matt-denker","tag-matthew-denker","tag-mcc","tag-north-winton-village","tag-roclinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361","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=12361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12365,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions\/12365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}