06/06/2009
I would like to see more transportation options. High speed rail has great promise. 


06/09/2009
I agree that high speed rail would be a good thing. More important than our inter-city transportation right now is our intra-city transportation. We need to create a new and exciting downtown transit system. This is worth the monetary investment. Light rail, flooding the aqueducts, reusing the old subway tunnel for a park much like they just did with an old El line in Manhattan -- this is the *****ture. It has to "pop" or it will garner no attention. Smoggy buses don't pop.


06/09/2009
Housing is extremely important to the vitality of the City. Our suburban homes are great, like most places. But our urban housing is bad with the exception of the Park, East Ave and South Wedge neighborhoods. Housing and poverty are closely linked like most things are with poverty. We have such an abundance of dilapidated homes in our more poverty stricken areas, and there needs to be a comprehensive plan to deal with that, Duffy has done ok in this regard but not great. I am very happy with Corn Hill Landing's success, although it pains me to see one of the most beauti*****l and historic neighborhoods in America so poorly managed and utilized. The High Falls apts are coming along nicely too.


06/09/2009
Renaissance Square *must* include a Broadway-style theater! A bigger, more convenient theater is essential to drawing suburbanites downtown.


06/09/2009
I have finally come to the conclusion that housing values here in the city are going to keep going in the gutter. Now the biggest reason for this whole inner city housing problem is control of crime.What was *****nny is a few years back, I believe it was Mayor Bill Johnson telling people that the city was a "great investment". Out of the 6 years I have lived in the city the property values are going in the drains. You can put $30,000 worth of repairs an investments into your property just to lose $10,000 on the original price of the house. All I can say is at this point what do we do here?


06/11/2009
It may be operator error but under the arts, culture and leisure time I fail to see any list of the outstanding museums, theater, etc, we have , nor photos of them, nor links to their websites. The arts, all of them, visual, musical, theater etc. are jewels in the crown of this city that would entice many to want to live and work in the region. There are numersous studies on the draw that the arts have in any community. Am I missing something? I hope so.


06/11/2009
I think it is well known that we do not have the individual donor commitment to a new theatre downtown. It's time to give up on that and actually put together a plan that will work before we lose the promised federal *****nding. My fear, and I think every day that it is truly coming true, is that Ren Square will never happen -- or even worse, that another 10 years are spent in planning and arguing -- like the Rochester Children's Zone, which is another venture we can't afford.


06/12/2009
Anyone interested in learning more about transportation's impact on our community's choices reflected in where we live, work, shop, worship, study, and play would be well-advised to visit the New York Museum of Transportation, located in Rush, and open Sundays-only all year. Visitors can ride the only trolley operation in New York State, view trolleys and vehicles from decades past, and study a wealth of photographs and materials that do*****ent our area's transportation history.


06/12/2009
Perhaps the greatest threat to stabilizing neighborhoods and improving housing conditions/values is the fact that our region has an oversupply of housing. At the same time the city and the region continues to lose population. The set of conditions this puts in place, socially and economically, makes it very difficult to achieve sustainable results at the neighborhood level despite all the many excellent efforts taking place. Does ACT Rochester address this in any way?


07/20/2009
great tips. I enjoyed reading this.


07/20/2009
Thanks for your insights. I couldn't agree more.


07/20/2009
Great work. Thanks for your ideas.


07/25/2009
Great topic, nice message. Thank you.


07/25/2009
Cool Info, practical.


07/25/2009
great tips. I enjoyed reading this.


07/26/2009
Thank you for this site, suso much information. Thank you!


07/29/2009
It would be so nice to see a few developments in the "what's being done" category outside of Monroe County. Things lIke the Finger Lakes Culinary Center in Canandaigua, the Warren Homestead in York and the Livingston Arts Center with its New Deal Gallery in Mount Morris pop into my head. It would also behoove you to recognize the big return on small investments in local and regional festivals and events, rather than looking only at the big 15. Also, saying that music makes children better at math misses the point. Opportunities for learning in the arts give children the creative skills needed to live in an ever surprizing world.


08/25/2009
While it is true that large institutions for public entertainment are alive and well, smaller places for enjoyment, learning and engagement are not fairing so well. Rochester needs to support permanent institutional organizations as much as it does festivals and single event activities. These are the places that continue to offer options to Rochester residents year round.


12/13/2009
this is a cool news. Thank you.


06/30/2010
First - I agree with Peggy Hubbard. Shouldn't those links to the actual cultural groups exist? How else can ACT directly enhance public awareness of these *****ets. Second - I find it hard to believe that anyone still refers to Renaissance Square. That project is dead. And the theater appears to be the deadest part.