Conceived by the owners of local department stores McCurdy's and B. Forman Co., and designed by Victor Gruen, a pioneer in shopping mall design, Midtown Plaza was America’s first indoor urban mall.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — When Midtown Plaza opened in 1962, it drew national attention, welcoming a First Lady, famed theme park developer Walt Disney, celebrities and well-known artists to downtown ...

In his downtown Worcester office, Felicio Lana has all sorts of renderings and rolls of detailed blueprint plans for redevelopment projects his company, Northeast Properties, is working on. Pointing ...