The Rochester Broadway Theatre League has dedicated the "Joseph A. Floreano Entertainment and Education Center" at the Auditorium Theatre.

Floreano, the longtime director of the Rochester Riverside Convention Center, died last year after a battle with cancer. He was also a member of the RBTL Board of Directors for 15 years.

Eleven more companies have decided to expand, or locate in New York State as part of the START-UP NY program, including two in the Rochester area.

That program allows participating companies to operate free of state and local taxes at sites that have ties to the state’s colleges and universities.

The local companies just signing onto the program include ClearCove Systems. That is a renewable energy company that will locate its headquarters to the RIT downtown campus and create 23 jobs while investing nearly $4 million.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is on a state tour to pressure legislators into adopting a $10.50 per hour minimum wage by the end of 2016. The plan comes at the same time some retailers are raising wages on their own.

Last month, Walmart announced a plan to raise the minimum wage it pays its employees to $9 an hour—$10 in a year. A number of retailers have pledged to follow suit, taking the wage they pay above the federal minimum of $7.25.

A local business leader says if the state wants to add another billion dollars to the Governor's proposed Upstate Revitalization Fund, that's fine by him. But Mark Peterson, President of Greater Rochester Enterprise is just happy the Governor has put a focus on the upstate economy.

Peterson is reacting to the report that there will be an Op-Ed piece sent to newspapers across the state this week signed by about 50 business leaders including U of R President Joel Seligman, Wegmans' CEO Danny Wegman and Rochester Business Alliance President Bob Duffy.

Governor Cuomo joined Mayor Lovely Warren and Gary Bonadonna of the Rochester Joint Board to push his minimum wage increase agenda at Workers United.

The governor says the economy is on the upswing, and the state is producing more millionaires and billionaires than ever before. But, he says, that doesn't mean everyone is benefiting.

"It's not success when just those at the top do well because we define success as shared success. We want people all along that economic spectrum to do well."