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Edge of the Wedge Home to Businesses and Apartments

Officials cut ceremonial ribbon at Edge of the Wedge.
Veronica Volk
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WXXI
Officials cut ceremonial ribbon at Edge of the Wedge.

City officials and business owners celebrated the completion of the Edge of the Wedge redevelopment. The Buckingham Properties project turned the old Ward Supply Company Warehouse into a mixed-use facility for both businesses and residents.

The project was started under the late Larry Glazer. His son Ken says he's proud to have been a part of it.

"This is one of the projects that we feel at home doing. What we do best is probably take these older buildings and take them apart and put them back together."

He says this building opens people up to more accessible, walk-able places to live.

"People want to live upstairs and come down and eat and do all sorts of city living that has been missed for so long in Rochester, and a mixed-use really captures the essence of what it is to live in a city."

One of the businesses in the old red brick building, The Cub Room, is already open. Owner Jodie Johnson recently moved back to Rochester, her hometown, from New York City. She says she had many reasons for coming back. She and her husband wanted to raise their daughters here, and be closer to family, but it was also a business decision.

"There's so much opportunity here from the architecture, to all that's going on with food and cocktails, and just the excitement in the city. I feel like there's so much potential and to be a part of it, to maybe bring some more of that here is exactly what we want to do."

The other business taking up residence at Edge of the Wedge is McCann's Local Meats, slated to open in June.

Veronica Volk is a senior editor and producer for WXXI News.