Cuomo announces $5M for East Main and State Street projects

Editor's note: This story has been updated since it was first published online to adjust some details about the property at Main and Clinton.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced $5 million in Restore New York grants on Monday to help redevelop the old Renaissance Square block on East Main Street and other buildings downtown.

The funding — also aiding renovation of the old First National Bank-Old Monroe County Savings Bank building and the former Yangtze Chinese Restaurant on State Street — is part of nearly $11 million awarded to the Finger Lakes region.

The combined projects would result in 145 apartments plus street-level commercial space, according to a statement from Mayor Lovely Warren. Most of those apartments were previously announced as part of Sibley Square, which accounted for $1.9 million of the award total.

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The East Main Street block would focus on either side of the recent redevelopment of the former McCrory's building, extend to the Main and Clinton corner and include money for Sibley Square.

Developer Patrick Dutton is planning a $9.8 million overhaul of two mid-block properties at 186 and 190-194 E. Main St. He and his partners in Dutton Properties plan to combine the two vacant buildings into a mixed-use development with 32 lofts, office space and street-level restaurant and retail, and received more than $1.5 million from the state.

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Farther east, properties at the North Clinton Avenue corner belonging to developer Scott Hopwood would be transformed into six apartments and first-floor retail. Preliminary estimates on redevelopment costs stand at $2 million, he said. The state award was for $710,000.

Hopwood also owns the former Chinese restaurant on State Street, and plans to convert it to a food court with multiple tenants. Nearby, the former bank building at 35 State St. houses Lifetime Financial Group, owned by Carmen Coleman, and both the company and building ownership are registered to the same Fairport address. Plans are to convert the space for healthcare-oriented businesses, while opening the atrium as event space, records show.

Cuomo also announced grants Monday of $1 million each for the Medley Center's planned conversion into the mixed-use SkyView on the Ridge in Irondequoit, to aid in the rehabilitation of the abandoned former Labelon manufacturing facility in Canandaigua into a mixed-use project with 52 residential units, and to restore and convert the former Holley High School into a residential/commercial facility for seniors.

BDSHARP@Gannett.com