Make Downtown Rochester Alleys Fun and Inviting
The Heart of the City team is inviting the public to help bring downtown Rochester’s alleys and streets alive through artistic expression. Alleys ar...
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Refined Prototype Furniture Returns to Heart of the City
Prototyping is a way to inform designs before they’re final. Over the years, you’ve seen DMC, the City of Rochester, and the Rochester Downtown Al...
Art + Design in Public Space Series, June 27
The Heart of the City design team is pleased to invite you to join a panel discussion and conversations on......
Bringing Universal Design to Life in Heart of the City
The Heart of the City design team has been prototyping various design elements in Heart of the City including, most recently, Universal Design in Peac...
Universal Design – Making the Heart of the City Open to Everyone
One of the main goals of Heart of the City is to make downtown Rochester a destination everyone can enjoy. To make this happen, the design needs to un...
Art + Design in Public Space Series, May 16
The Heart of the City team is pleased to invite you to join in our monthly presentation and conversations series......
Heart of the City Winter Activation : Testing Warming Benches at SocialICE!
Did you catch us at SocialICE? If you did, maybe you had a chance to test out our heated benches. One of the goals of Heart of the City is creating op...
Imagination Comes to Life with Prototyping Design
As part of the Heart of the City Phase 1 - Public Spaces, the design team reviewed many ideas for how to bring underutilized areas to life with useful...