Leaders of the Renaissance Square project will seek the public’s ideas and comments on architects’ current project design concepts at a public workshop Thursday, April 24.
The workshop will be held at the Rochester Convention Center, beginning at 6 p.m. Anyone who wants to see the concepts, ask questions or comment can arrive anytime between 6 and 9 p.m.
Four design concepts will be shown. The architects who conceived them will be there to discuss them one-on-one with people who come. The architects are a joint team made up of LaBella and Associates, SWBR, Bergmann & Associates and DeWolff Partnership Architects.
A “design concept” is the very earliest stage of the architectural creative process. The four Renaissance Square concepts will simply show how the elements of the project might fit together on the site. A concept is not an artist rendering or a model.
The Renaissance Square elements are a new transit center for public transit customers, a new Damon City Campus for Monroe Community College and a performing arts center. The site being considered is the block of East Main Street between St. Paul Street and Clinton Avenue.
The architect team will write down suggestions and comments from the public and add them to comments from prior workshops. They will then evaluate the comments for consideration as they work toward completion of the preliminary design. Another workshop will be held in May and a third in the fall.
The initial design concepts are being presented to the public only 10 weeks after the architect team received contracts from the Renaissance Square partners to proceed with the work.
\The partners are Monroe County, the City of Rochester, Monroe Community College and the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority.
The project will cost no more than $230 million, $175 million of which is already committed from federal, state and local sources.
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Cynthia Cooper
College and Community Relations
04/11/2008 |