Topic > Team Project Narrative: The Midtown Perspective

For many decades, the downtown area has been the most targeted essential location for future economic prosperity, residential and commercial growth, and the vitality and vitality of urban centers and the expansion of the entire city. The reason is that Rochester, New York, was best known for being a key Rust Belt city, specializing in large-scale manufacturing of transportation, electricity, and industrial processes. Over the past two decades it has been universally known that with the new generation of emerging technologies and the decreasing use of old traditional factories, the basis for economic support would soon disappear. This example is simply demonstrated by the presence of many huge empty buildings located in the center of the city of Rochester. Not only does this severely impact our industrial businesses and economic growth in the city, but it also affects the entire downtown community, residents, visitors, and even changes the perception of what downtown Rochester used to be. Every business, retail store, market or educational facility in the area has been severely affected by this ripple effect. Rochester was also very popular among the United States by being the first to build an enclosed shopping mall called Midtown Plaza in the heart of the city. . This place was a primary source of highly concentrated economic success and population growth. When suburban shopping malls were built in nearby cities, Midtown Plaza also suffered a great loss. From being one of the most prosperous places during the 1960s-1970s, to today, April 26, 2012, the Midtown Plaza is no longer standing, resulting in nine acres of developable property ready for the shoveling; I'm desperately waiting for offers. In the fog of the mess, the presence of the Monroe Comm remained...... at the center of the document ......t/article.asp?aID=190595Cooper, C. (2012). Mcc Statement on Efforts to Negotiate a Lease for the Sibley Building. MCC News, Retrieved from http://www.monroecc.edu/etsdbs/pubaff.nsf/HomePageNews_Include/58897C9EA54C116985257983006DBA02?OpenDocumentKress, A. (2011). An open letter on MCC's proposal for Kodak's downtown campus. Manuscript submitted for publication, Monroe Community College, Monroe Community College, Rochester, New York. Retrieved from http://www.monroecc.edu/downtown/docs/OpenLetterfromDrKress.pdfRichards, T. S. (2011). Focus group of Mcc students: what they said. 13Wham Blog, retrieved from http://www.13wham.com/content/blogs/story/MCC-Student-Focus-Group-What-They-Said/TC377v9_3kaZ8QHgHRr3ng.cspx Stewart, J. S. (2012). Mcc extends lease on Sibley building, for now. Education, excerpted from http://wxxinews.org/post/mcc-extends-lease-sibley-building-now