PAETEC Tower
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PAETEC Headquarters is a building proposed and approved for construction in Rochester, New York
Rochester, New York
Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...

. It would serve as the new headquarters for the Rochester-based telecommunications company, PAETEC Holding Corp.
PAETEC Holding Corp.
PAETEC Holding Corp. is a FORTUNE 1000 telecommunications company headquartered in Perinton, New York, USA. It was founded as the private company PaeTec Communications, Inc. in 1998 by its current CEO, Arunas A. Chesonis...

 Its proposed height is 40 floors with a LEED-certified rooftop garden and proposed year is 2012. The proposed PAETEC building will sit on the southeast corner of the intersection of Main Street and Clinton Avenue, taking advantage of both the refreshed (abated) skeletal structure of the former Seneca Building and adjacency to an enormous underground parking facility (1600+spaces) and truck tunnel. In addition to reusing the Seneca structure, PAETEC revealed plans at an RDDC luncheon in June 2010 that detailed the construction of a semi-transparent NOC on the north side of the building with viewing lines for pedestrians into its command center, additional office space on the south side of the structure, as well as retail on the first floor.

The new downtown headquarters for PAETEC is part of a redevelopment plan and the state of New York is using a 40 million dollar state grant to clear the Midtown site.

Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy wants to see the project done. "I want to see Midtown Plaza go down and a new Midtown start to go up, PAETEC headquarters, Midtown Tower."

Midtown Plaza

It was announced on October 16, 2007 that Midtown Plaza will be knocked down to make way for the new PAETEC
PAETEC Holding Corp.
PAETEC Holding Corp. is a FORTUNE 1000 telecommunications company headquartered in Perinton, New York, USA. It was founded as the private company PaeTec Communications, Inc. in 1998 by its current CEO, Arunas A. Chesonis...

 headquarters via eminent domain
Eminent domain
Eminent domain , compulsory purchase , resumption/compulsory acquisition , or expropriation is an action of the state to seize a citizen's private property, expropriate property, or seize a citizen's rights in property with due monetary compensation, but without the owner's consent...

. Midtown Plaza is the first urban indoor mall in the United States.
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