From brown to green: Rochester, N.Y., sheds its industrial past

American City and County: Rochester, N.Y., built itself on industry – from the flour mills along the Genesee River to the birth of Kodak, Xerox and Bausch & Lomb. But as new technologies emerged and old industries faded, Rochester was left with empty factories, offices, and other remnants of a once-booming industrial economy.

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