Midtown Plaza annually brought in a 30- or 40-foot tree that became the area’s de facto downtown Christmas tree. School choirs and community groups performed holiday songs in the mall. The Merry ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – For many, the holiday season in Rochester was once synonymous with a visit to Midtown Plaza. This iconic downtown mall, which opened in 1962, was the first indoor mall in a ...
Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — There's no time like the present to restore a local piece of the city's history. Midtown Plaza's Clock of Nations, which was built in the 1960s, is set to be ticking ...
In the 1950s, downtown Rochester already was losing shoppers to the suburbs, and McCurdy's department store and the B. Forman Co. clothing store, led by Maurice Forman, pushed for an innovative ...