{"id":12489,"date":"2016-07-10T11:44:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=12489"},"modified":"2016-07-10T11:44:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T15:44:06","slug":"roclinks-7916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2016\/07\/roclinks-7916\/","title":{"rendered":"RocLinks 7\/9\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Excavating for the War Memorial Arena in 1952 [PHOTO: RPL Local History Division]\" rel=\"lightbox-roclinks20160207\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-content\/uploads\/War_Memorial_Excavation.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom:6px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-content\/uploads\/War_Memorial_Excavation.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Excavating for the War Memorial Arena in 1952 [PHOTO: RPL Local History Division]\" 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>Arena Upgrades<\/h3>\n<p>D&#038;C <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2016\/07\/01\/what-10m-might-buy-blue-cross-arena\/86539972\/\" target=\"_new\">takes a look<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> at various upgrades on deck for the BC Arena. What would you do given the chance? I actually think, because the arena doesn&#8217;t address the river so much, that there&#8217;s room on the southeast corner for a residential tower and a sports bar (something that&#8217;s oddly absent from here and near the ballpark). That&#8217;s not $10m worth of upgrades, though.<\/p>\n<h3>Eat Up<\/h3>\n<p>So apparently Swiftwater is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochestercitynewspaper.com\/rochester\/swiftwater-is-serving-more-than-standard-brewery-fare\/Content?oid=2838201\" target=\"_new\">serving food.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> That&#8217;s awesome, but I hope it doesn&#8217;t preclude me from ordering from Lin&#8217;s Garden and taking it there anyway. There&#8217;s something euphoric about beer and Chinese food.<\/p>\n<h3>Eat Up (Reprise)<\/h3>\n<p>AND Rochesterguy made it <a href=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/SDlmV\/\" target=\"_new\">to Nosh.<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&#8217;m now busy scrubbing down my screen after slobbering all over it. I can&#8217;t believe the pictures would be lying, so I guess check it out.<\/p>\n<h3>Afield, but Close<\/h3>\n<p>And finally, while continuing to wait for the Joe Bean popup park, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/cityfixer\/2016\/07\/whimsical-parklets-spring-up-in-covington-kentucky\/489794\/\" target=\"_new\">all these<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> that were erected in Covington, KY &#8211; a place formerly famous only for having Cincinnati&#8217;s airport.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin:20px 0px 20px 0px\">\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/div>\n<p>Have a great holiday weekend (Happy Birthday America), and 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":12496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3095,114,79],"tags":[506,3859,3860,2843,1643,3858,1957,3861,3015,3121],"class_list":["post-12489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture-2","category-rochester_news","category-urban_development","tag-blue-cross-arena","tag-covington-ky","tag-joe-bean","tag-matt-denker","tag-matthew-denker","tag-nosh","tag-nota","tag-pocket-parks","tag-roclinks","tag-swiftwater-brewing-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489","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=12489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12495,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions\/12495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}