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It has been parked in the back lot for a while, but the now a Morrie's Mazda dealership is ready to roll in Rochester, says Morrie's COO Karl Schmidt.
Applications for building permits to expand the building at 3800 West River Parkway N.W. should go to the city in the next week or 10 days, Schmidt says.
This will be built in where Quality Auto Sales was at the the intersection of 37th Street West River Parkway.
I'll have more on this later.
The notice has gone out. There's a glitch in the latest Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce newsletter.
A typo might confuse people, so an e-mail has gone out to remind people that the May 8 BAH is on Thursday.
By sheer good luck, the Post-Bulletin has it correct in print.
However, the chamber has many, many calendar typos to go to catch up to the piles of errors I've made in the last few years. Though I do challenge them to try. Heh.
Thursday • Business After Hours, a networking event for local businesses, is scheduled from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Rochester Toyota, 4365 Canal Place S.E. The Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce sponsors this event.
OK, there was some confusion around the earlier piece in print and online about the Hangar Bar & Grill.
And that was because I screwed up on the ownership part. The blog entry as well as the online version of the full story have been fixed. For the record, I did leave messages Tuesday at the Hangar as well as with McCollum and Chafoulias to clarify details.
Here's how the details break down:
• In 2002, Andy Chafoulias opens the Hangar Bar & Grill at 7386 Airport View Drive S.W. near Rochester International Airport.
• Les Nelson bought the building in 2003 from Chafoulias. As part of that sale, Chafoulias agreed to guarantee rent from the property through June of 2008.
• Bill McCollum and Robert Smith currently own the Hangar. In 2006, they bought it from Chafoulias. He remained on the lease as a guarantor through 2008, though he had no part in the ownership.
• Nelson files for eviction on Oct. 31. The filing lists McCollum, Smith, and Chafoulias.
I'm apologize for the error and any trouble or confusion it may stirred up.
There will be a full follow-up on the Hangar in Thursday's edition.
During my search for John J. Rigas (He is now listed as being in custody at the low-level security portion of the Butner, N.C. federal prision complex), I had a blog reader send me some interesting photos snapped a few weeks ago at the Rochester International Airport.
Instead of a wealthy business man or celeb landing in a private jet, this guy saw a line of people in handcuffs being loaded on to an airplane. Yeah, visions of that classic Nicholas Cage movie (Actually, I like "Raising Arizona" better and I have "Ghost Rider" sitting at home unwatched as of yet) "Con Air" come to mind.
However, these guys look prettty amiable with no one wearing Hannibal Lector.
Anyway, this is not particularly business related or even that informative, but I thought they were interesting pics. Here some from the note that came witrh it:
Not certain if you are aware, prison transport planes land in Rochester on occasion. A few weeks ago we happened to be taxiing for takeoff and I quickly snapped the attached photos (higher res versions available). I was not prepared for this event and did not have the proper equipment with. Plus, I am not too excited about taking pictures of guys with guns.
There was a line of 20+ cons waiting to board and I have no idea how many got on the plane before we showed up. No clue where the plane came from, the destination or where all the prisoners came from.
The plane is known as Justice 43 and I believe it is operated by the US Marshall’s Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS)
This one was frustrating. I called the Rochester Federal Center repeatedly last week about John Rigas, but I did not hear back. So I went with the information published in the USA Today (Yes, I know. That obviously did not turn out well.)
Anyway, after being disconnected a few times while calling Rochester about this, I was told this morning that Rigas was in Butner, N.C.
So I call there. I'm disconnected a couple times and then I get a guy who says he'll get back to me. They same a couple of guys had been brought in and he might have been one of them.
Later in the afternoon I check the Bureau of Prisons database and it still says Rigas is not in custody. I call back – I'm disconnected a few times – then I told the people I left a message with had gone home. *Sigh*
I was told I would be transfered to someone who might be able to help me and I was disconnected more than 10 times in a row.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure John Rigas and his son Tim are in custody in North Carolina. Why the apparent change from earlier plans to have John come and Tim go to Ohio, I don't know.
John Rigas, the founder of cable giant Adelphia Communications who was convicted for securities fraud, did not show up at Rochester’s Federal Medical Center this week.Though earlier reports on the case stated that the 82-year-Rigas would come to Rochester to start his 15-year sentence, he and his 51-year-old son, Tim, turned themselves in to the Butner Federal Correctional Complex instead, according to news media reports.
Officials at North Carolina federal complex did acknowledge that the elder Rigas had arrived, though they couldn’t say on Monday afternoon which of the four prisons he was being held in.
The multibillion-dollar fraud in which Rigas and his son were involved led to the collapse of the nation’s fifth-largest cable company.
I wrote on here awhile back and in print that John J. Rigas, the founder and ex-board chairman of the cable giant Adelphia Communications, was on his way to Federal Medical Center prison in Rochester Sunday to start a 15 year sentence for a 2004 securities fraud conviction.
I just saw this guy interviewed on Charlie Rose over the weekend. Very frail and he says "I just did not know" any illegal dealings.
I got a tip this morning that he might not have shown up on schedule.
So I did a search on the Federal Bureau of Prisons Web site and this is what I got:
1. JOHN J RIGAS 82 White M UNKNOWN NOT IN BOP CUSTODY
Hhhmmm.... A call to the FMC this morning has them checking and planning to give me a call back.
I wonder what is happening?
The 1st Avenue Mixed Use project (Hal Henderson's proposed student housing building in downtown Rochester) was shaded in as way too big on the graphic on the front page Wednesday.
That building does not extend to the corner of Third Street. It will not encompass Bilotti's or John Kruesel's antique store.
That graphic was a small piece of a larger one created to run with the store. I will do more with skyways in the future. Time and space limitations did not allow me to go as in-depth on a complicated issue as I would have liked.
However, I'm sorry if the graphic malfunction caused any confusion or problems.
Alright, I evidently can't read.
• Business After Hours, a monthly Rochester Chamber of Commerce networking event for local businesses, is scheduled from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. tonight at Park Place Motors at 2720 U.S. 52 North in Rochester.
I combined two events in the business calendar that ran Monday and confused things. Of course, I'm always confused.
Anyway, I apologize for the error. If you want to network with Rochester Area Chamber of Commmerce members tonight, go to Park Place Motors at 2720 U.S. 52 North in Rochester.
Whoops. I screwed up the day of the Rochester Fire basketball event in my column Monday.
It is Thursday at the Rochester Athletic Club. The socializing starts at 4;30 p.m., announcements at 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. for Q and A.
I hate it when I muck up things like that. I apologize to the Fire crew.
OK, I need to read a little closer, particularly when the letters are very big and in black permanent marker.
The former hotel on Third Ave. and Sixth St. is not being knocked down. If one looks at the permit for more than a second or two, it is obvious that it says "Int. Demo."
It is being gutted, but the building will remain standing. I should have more on this soon.
Sorry about the misinformation.
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