'Lightning in a Bottle': Preservation Expert Backs Plans for Cave Spring Historic District

Broadway developers plan appeal for change in historic district

ROCHESTER — A South Broadway Avenue property owner said he wasn’t surprised last week when a request for support of major alterations to three buildings in Rochester’s Downtown Historic Center was denied by the city’s Heritage Preservation Commission. “We anticipated the HPC outcome,” Hal Henderson said. “The HPC has one objective and a narrow definition of their purpose. They do not review projects with a broad and best use perspective.” Hender…

'Lightning in a Bottle': Preservation Expert Backs Plans for Cave Spring Historic District

With a deep history that spans centuries, Cave Spring is filled with preserved buildings and homes by a community that takes pride in being referred to as “historic.”