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Midtown Plaza. Midtown Plaza is a city district in downtown Rochester, New York. The site was originally occupied by an indoor shopping mall designed by Victor Gruen and opened in 1962. Although it was primarily promoted as a retail space, Gruen's vision was for the plaza to function as an all-purpose community space to revitalize the downtown ...
In 1962, Midtown Plaza was constructed in downtown Rochester. Midtown was a major urban shopping mall and the first urban indoor shopping mall in the United States. Midtown Plaza brought many people downtown, but it would soon become a victim of suburbanization.
An iconic Rochester timepiece that originally was the focal point of Midtown Plaza may soon be brought out of mothballs and put on display near to where it stood for more than four decades. The ...
The Democrat and Chronicle building at Midtown Plaza in Rochester, New York. In May 2016, the Democrat and Chronicle relocated its headquarters to a new, smaller building at the Midtown Plaza site on East Main Street. At 153,350 square feet, the former headquarters in the Gannett building was considerably larger than the current headquarters ...
Tower 280 at Midtown. / 43.155627; -77.604378. Tower280 at Midtown, formerly known as Midtown Tower, is a high-rise building in downtown Rochester, New York, United States. It contains luxury apartments as well as a top floor penthouse with office space and retail space and a restaurant on the bottom three levels.
GEM, a forerunner of Costco, was a huge department/grocery store in Rochester in the 1960-70s. Families loved it. GEM offered Rochester a different shopping experience during Midtown's, Sibley's ...
PAETEC Headquarters was a building proposed and approved for construction in Rochester, New York. It was to serve as the new headquarters for the Rochester-based telecommunications company, PAETEC Holding Corp. Its original proposed height was 40 floors, with a LEED-certified rooftop garden and was originally slated for completion in 2012.
The Midtown Plaza location (McCurdy's main store) and Sibley's main store were directly across the street from each other on East Main Street in downtown Rochester, although McCurdy's was a bit more conservative in merchandising. Midtown's most striking feature was the mechanical "Clock of Nations" in the main floor atrium.