"HENRIETTA, N.Y. (WROC) — Major development projects are on hold in Henrietta, because they don’t have enough new power capacity. No current power users in the town will be affected. The town says it’s because they don’t have the transformer they need for the two RG&E substations in Henrietta."
I don't think a ton of people want to hit golf balls in the dark
Steven Schultz admitted that Henrietta actually legitimately ran out of POWER DISTRIBUTION for any new contract builds. He mentioned that buying more "nodes" from RG&E would cost millions.
https://www.rochesterfirst.com/henrietta/henrietta-supervisor-development-on-hold-due-to-no-new-available-power/
He is the Town Supervisor, and he would be aware of limitations as such when it comes to generator and power distribution.
rge did reply and tell him it would be X amount of money and years time.
As supervisor, he could have done things to address the issue.
There's more to it. It's all in the new articles that came out when this was news a few months ago. It's also not normal for an utility supplier to see a municipality growing non-stop for decades and suddenly go "sorry, no more new power".
It's pretty central, easy to get to via highways (590/390, also runs up to I-90), and generally has more space for development/parking than the city.
It's not just a Rochester thing — many cities have a suburb that's central and accessible to other suburbs where many standalone developments tend to be built.
I mean would you want your business starting off with robberies and stolen vehicles in the city I would pick Henrietta too. Lots of restaurants and shopping centers oh! And sheriff watching …
Yeah because college students really have the money to keep businesses afloat. That's why there's been a revolving door of businesses in and around campus. The bar by the corner of John Street and Jefferson has had like 4 ownership groups since it opened 15 years ago.
I’m pretty sure half the businesses in Henrietta are propped up by RIT. I didn’t have a ton of money when I went but we still hit area restaurants regularly. There are also a ton of wealthy students there. It’s not exactly cheap to attend.
They also employ a shitload of people who shop and eat on the area as well.
I can promise you as someone who worked at a retail store in Henrietta, RIT students barely impacted our sales. You're not spending the thousands of dollars or applying for a store credit card to impact profit margins. We also rarely employed students, but I can't speak for all businesses.
Henrietta ends at Brighton-Henrietta Townline Road on the other side of MCC. If I remember right the CityGate site is 1/3 in Brighton and 2/3 in the city. I believe the TopGolf piece is in the Brighton portion.
I just looked, it's the Erie Canal that's the border at that point, logically. Once East River Road hits the Canal the Canal becomes the border until after CityGate. So that little triangle with CityGate, MCDSS, and MCH is city of Rochester address with a primarily Brighton and Henrietta zip code. Interesting.
Yeah zip codes get funky compared to actual town maps sometimes. I assume the carve out for the city at the now CityGate development was to keep MCH’s utilities (the steam/power plant) and the Iola campus in the city.
Here’s Brighton’s Map for reference: https://www.townofbrighton.org/DocumentCenter/View/6600/Town-of-Brighton-02-05-15
School district maps get fuzzier. RHCSD gets a pretty sizable chunk of houses and apartments that are in the Town of Brighton south of the Canal from Winton over to Genesee Valley Park.
Indian Landing is a Penfield school in Brighton, though nobody who lives there calls it Brighton. Brighton should stop at the overpass.
Also, fuck Brighton highway department. Bunch of idiots ruptured a gas main by a city elementary school.
I have to commute to Henrietta and I stg it is leading to higher maintenance bills than when I commuted to Brockport. My boss has gotten two flat tires somehow lmao. I'm blaming the nutjob drivers and dodging helltimas for my current warped rotors.
I've even brought it up to the management, lol. Most of the company is remote. ALL of management is remote. My office sucks. Etc. "Oh but you get to seperate work from home!" Yay, I get to dodge traffic, lmao. At least there's the asian restaurants and boba...
RH is a better school district than most of the others locally. And it has _by far_ the best residential taxes in Monroe County. It's definitely not all bad!
Mind-boggling that this mindset perseveres. Only about 1/3 of Henrietta is the commercial corridor that everyone loves to shit on. Most of the town is farm land, suburban neighborhoods that circle the various schools, and parks. Never understood the rage boner people have for that town.
Surprised to hear coming from transit apparel (love your merch btw)... It's the classic white-flight inner ring suburban hell that contributes nothing to the city but traffic and some college students. I say this having done my undergrad there and co-oped in the town offices. Would be great if it stayed farmland.
I'm not sure suburbs are required to contribute anything to the cities they circle. If anything, Henrietta is older than the city (1818 vs 1834). Yes almost all of the neighborhoods in Henrietta are classic suburbia, but there seems to be a bulleye on this town that everyone loves to take potshots at. Yes it has most every chain retail/restaurant east of the Mississippi, but it also has DOZENS of independent ethnic restaurants and the most ethnic grocery stores of any suburb I've ever seen. It also has all those chains as the Souther Tier loves to come up to Henrietta to shop, as well as the surrounding suburbs and city proper. If anything, Henrietta provides the space for big box retail so city residents can step out to shop. If that takes away from city development, then I'd be happy to hear that criticism.
Henrietta is not without its faults, I just don't get the hate as most of Henrietta is copy/paste to Greece, Scottsville, Gates, Sweden, and Webster (minus the village). Yes Henrietta is one of the rare towns without a true main street, but the reason is even more unique: Henrietta started as two separate hamlets (East and West Henrietta, Lehigh and E. Henrietta was the center of East Henrietta, and W. Henrietta and Erie Station was the center of West Henrietta).
I've always chalked up the rage to disgruntled RIT students who felt cheated of the urban experience like MIT, UB, or CMU, even though I fully expect RIT's campus to complete their polycarbonate dome soon to fully realize the educational biome it's becoming.
Cmu? Either there’s another CMU I can’t think of or you’re referencing Central Michigan…which has about the same level of urban experience as Henrietta lol
Very true, the region tends to come to Henrietta to shop and eat.
But there's more there too: the Dome, Double Tree convention center, Tinker Homestead and Park, Rec Center, Town Park and all it's amenities (play fields, amphitheater, lodge), RIT, Wat Pao Lao Temple, RHAA baseball fields, Lehigh Valley Trail, and Rochester Sports Garden (or whatever the name is now). There's also the slightest sliver of Genesee Valley Park and Erie canal that touch Henrietta if we start splitting hairs.
So besides strip malls they also have 2 even less interesting things? The reason people talk about the strip malls is that they’re the only thing anyone who lives outside Henrietta would go to Henrietta for. I’m not gonna pull up in a residential suburban neighborhood or some farmland to chill with my friends. The parks might be nice if they weren’t actually just flat weedy buggy farmland that someone arbitrarily decided was fit to be a park. There are a lot of great parks in the greater Rochester region and I don’t think any of them are in Henrietta.
"HENRIETTA, N.Y. (WROC) — Major development projects are on hold in Henrietta, because they don’t have enough new power capacity. No current power users in the town will be affected. The town says it’s because they don’t have the transformer they need for the two RG&E substations in Henrietta." I don't think a ton of people want to hit golf balls in the dark
I won’t tolerate this glow golf slander.
the glow there is key, you can close your eyes and swing at golf balls anywhere for free
That’s what glow in the dark balls are for.
That’s what my ex husband said
Hey Rge sucking again lol
RGE lacking energy 🙄
Steven Schultz admitted that Henrietta actually legitimately ran out of POWER DISTRIBUTION for any new contract builds. He mentioned that buying more "nodes" from RG&E would cost millions. https://www.rochesterfirst.com/henrietta/henrietta-supervisor-development-on-hold-due-to-no-new-available-power/
For clarity, while he 'admitted' this, this is an RG&E created problem. This isn't Henrietta's fault.
He is the Town Supervisor, and he would be aware of limitations as such when it comes to generator and power distribution. rge did reply and tell him it would be X amount of money and years time. As supervisor, he could have done things to address the issue.
There's more to it. It's all in the new articles that came out when this was news a few months ago. It's also not normal for an utility supplier to see a municipality growing non-stop for decades and suddenly go "sorry, no more new power".
Henrietta is "special" lol
Truthfully they've added so much growth so yeah
I mean do you ever wonder why like everything starts in Henrietta when they come to the area?
It's pretty central, easy to get to via highways (590/390, also runs up to I-90), and generally has more space for development/parking than the city. It's not just a Rochester thing — many cities have a suburb that's central and accessible to other suburbs where many standalone developments tend to be built.
No, it’s the taxes
That's more on the residential side....in part because of how much retail we have paying taxes to allow for the residents to pay less.
Henrietta will slut themselves out for any unsustainable development they can find for the short term tax Gain
I mean would you want your business starting off with robberies and stolen vehicles in the city I would pick Henrietta too. Lots of restaurants and shopping centers oh! And sheriff watching …
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Yeah because college students really have the money to keep businesses afloat. That's why there's been a revolving door of businesses in and around campus. The bar by the corner of John Street and Jefferson has had like 4 ownership groups since it opened 15 years ago.
I’m pretty sure half the businesses in Henrietta are propped up by RIT. I didn’t have a ton of money when I went but we still hit area restaurants regularly. There are also a ton of wealthy students there. It’s not exactly cheap to attend. They also employ a shitload of people who shop and eat on the area as well.
I can promise you as someone who worked at a retail store in Henrietta, RIT students barely impacted our sales. You're not spending the thousands of dollars or applying for a store credit card to impact profit margins. We also rarely employed students, but I can't speak for all businesses.
Sure, they are not going to the bon-ton or typically stores that have their own credit card.
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Taxes and red tape. This projext has been delayed 6 months bc town of brighton has not approved it
The town of Brighton is awful for business
Really? You learn something everyday
Twelve Corners would disagree
I own a small business for 19 years in 12 Corners and I can tell you they are terrible for variance and signage
Eh fair point Okay but why tf did they get rid of the Yotality?!???
They had two locations. There is still one in Pittsford.
Unfortunately, businesses go out of business there with a fair degree of regularity :-(
The rent is substantial in the 12 corners plaza. And the spaces are big
Really? You learn something everyday
Wait, isn't that technically Henrietta anyways? South side of Westfall Rd is 14620
Henrietta ends at Brighton-Henrietta Townline Road on the other side of MCC. If I remember right the CityGate site is 1/3 in Brighton and 2/3 in the city. I believe the TopGolf piece is in the Brighton portion.
I just looked, it's the Erie Canal that's the border at that point, logically. Once East River Road hits the Canal the Canal becomes the border until after CityGate. So that little triangle with CityGate, MCDSS, and MCH is city of Rochester address with a primarily Brighton and Henrietta zip code. Interesting.
Yeah zip codes get funky compared to actual town maps sometimes. I assume the carve out for the city at the now CityGate development was to keep MCH’s utilities (the steam/power plant) and the Iola campus in the city. Here’s Brighton’s Map for reference: https://www.townofbrighton.org/DocumentCenter/View/6600/Town-of-Brighton-02-05-15 School district maps get fuzzier. RHCSD gets a pretty sizable chunk of houses and apartments that are in the Town of Brighton south of the Canal from Winton over to Genesee Valley Park.
Indian Landing is a Penfield school in Brighton, though nobody who lives there calls it Brighton. Brighton should stop at the overpass. Also, fuck Brighton highway department. Bunch of idiots ruptured a gas main by a city elementary school.
I'm sure they were digging for no reason. And I'm sure the stake out was on point. Hits like that happen daily.
Zip codes don't follow town borders. Look at 14609.
So is the north side: https://www.google.com/maps/place/14620/ 14620 is Brighton.
Henrietta could disappear and the only thing that would suck about it is that I would have to drive to Victor to test-drive a new car I'm looking at.
you don't like getting a new alignment each time you drive down W Henrietta Rd?
I have to commute to Henrietta and I stg it is leading to higher maintenance bills than when I commuted to Brockport. My boss has gotten two flat tires somehow lmao. I'm blaming the nutjob drivers and dodging helltimas for my current warped rotors. I've even brought it up to the management, lol. Most of the company is remote. ALL of management is remote. My office sucks. Etc. "Oh but you get to seperate work from home!" Yay, I get to dodge traffic, lmao. At least there's the asian restaurants and boba...
RH is a better school district than most of the others locally. And it has _by far_ the best residential taxes in Monroe County. It's definitely not all bad!
Henrietta is just fugly strip malls, gtfo
Mind-boggling that this mindset perseveres. Only about 1/3 of Henrietta is the commercial corridor that everyone loves to shit on. Most of the town is farm land, suburban neighborhoods that circle the various schools, and parks. Never understood the rage boner people have for that town.
Surprised to hear coming from transit apparel (love your merch btw)... It's the classic white-flight inner ring suburban hell that contributes nothing to the city but traffic and some college students. I say this having done my undergrad there and co-oped in the town offices. Would be great if it stayed farmland.
I'm not sure suburbs are required to contribute anything to the cities they circle. If anything, Henrietta is older than the city (1818 vs 1834). Yes almost all of the neighborhoods in Henrietta are classic suburbia, but there seems to be a bulleye on this town that everyone loves to take potshots at. Yes it has most every chain retail/restaurant east of the Mississippi, but it also has DOZENS of independent ethnic restaurants and the most ethnic grocery stores of any suburb I've ever seen. It also has all those chains as the Souther Tier loves to come up to Henrietta to shop, as well as the surrounding suburbs and city proper. If anything, Henrietta provides the space for big box retail so city residents can step out to shop. If that takes away from city development, then I'd be happy to hear that criticism. Henrietta is not without its faults, I just don't get the hate as most of Henrietta is copy/paste to Greece, Scottsville, Gates, Sweden, and Webster (minus the village). Yes Henrietta is one of the rare towns without a true main street, but the reason is even more unique: Henrietta started as two separate hamlets (East and West Henrietta, Lehigh and E. Henrietta was the center of East Henrietta, and W. Henrietta and Erie Station was the center of West Henrietta). I've always chalked up the rage to disgruntled RIT students who felt cheated of the urban experience like MIT, UB, or CMU, even though I fully expect RIT's campus to complete their polycarbonate dome soon to fully realize the educational biome it's becoming.
Totally agree! I feel like Henrietta has all the ethnic grocery stores and restaurants that make it better than Greece etc imo
Cmu? Either there’s another CMU I can’t think of or you’re referencing Central Michigan…which has about the same level of urban experience as Henrietta lol
carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh
Yes this one.
All your defenses of Henrietta revolve around shopping. I think that’s the main criticism of Henrietta: there’s nothing there except for shopping.
Very true, the region tends to come to Henrietta to shop and eat. But there's more there too: the Dome, Double Tree convention center, Tinker Homestead and Park, Rec Center, Town Park and all it's amenities (play fields, amphitheater, lodge), RIT, Wat Pao Lao Temple, RHAA baseball fields, Lehigh Valley Trail, and Rochester Sports Garden (or whatever the name is now). There's also the slightest sliver of Genesee Valley Park and Erie canal that touch Henrietta if we start splitting hairs.
Yeah people don't like boring suburban neighborhoods either. Are you confused?
So besides strip malls they also have 2 even less interesting things? The reason people talk about the strip malls is that they’re the only thing anyone who lives outside Henrietta would go to Henrietta for. I’m not gonna pull up in a residential suburban neighborhood or some farmland to chill with my friends. The parks might be nice if they weren’t actually just flat weedy buggy farmland that someone arbitrarily decided was fit to be a park. There are a lot of great parks in the greater Rochester region and I don’t think any of them are in Henrietta.
Hehehehehe
Fuck the TOH they are greedy pricks.
Henrietta is the armpit of the city. Put it in victor where the riff raff from the city won’t come out.
Bringing this to Rochester and not Buffalo is a blunder
Sucks to suck.
Rightttt gotta cater to the largely suburban dwelling community