Edgewater Resources failed to meet the city's deadline to secure financing. That project is dead.

That's right.
The development featuring a hotel, condos and boutiques at the Port of Rochester always hinged on Edgewater Resources securing the funding to complete the project. That was always stated by the city.
The Charlatans were too busy working themselves into a frenzy the last few years to be able to remember that.
They were having too much fun making asses of themselves to come up with a development plan of their own.
Today, when Edgewater asked for an additional nine months to secure funding, the city said "no."
That spells an end to this particular development plan, but it does not mean there is an end for plans to develop Charlotte.
The city will seek other development partners to redecorate the Port of Rochester, preferably partners with enough money to see it through.
The Charlatans ought to remember that if they are getting festive tonight.
It isn't over yet, not by a long shot.

And what about Canandaigua?

The City of Canandaigua is moving full speed ahead to develop the northern shore of Canandaigua Lake.
The people of Canandaigua appear to be happy about this. It will make use of previously unusable land and add to their small city charm.
It was formerly a brownfield.
This means that it needed a massive cleanup before any sort of development could occur.
The development will consist of mixed use buildings, retail and residences.
The people of Canandaigua see this development as a way to draw more people, both residents and tourists, to their charming city.
Then there's the urban village of Charlotte in Rochester.
Canandaigua and Charlotte seem similar in location and weather. Both are on lakes; both have the same winter weather; both have long histories.
But the Charlatans are uninterested in similar development plans proposed by City Hall.
They met at the Robach Center last night to complain about it. Again.
Only the numbers that Charlotte Strong's rabble rousers can muster to complain about the proposed development have dwindled.
The Charlatans don't want "development." They don't want "change." They don't want "tourists."
At least not the "wrong" kind of tourists. Especially on holiday weekends.
A "tourist" in Charlotte is anyone who doesn't live there, even if you live in another part of the City of Rochester.
The mayor would be better advised if they scrapped their plans for development in Charlotte entirely and concentrate on developing "Canal Town" downtown. Plenty of people have been asking about that for years.
City Hall could use Canandaigua as their example.
Charlotte can be left exactly as it is.

City Hall should abandon developing Charlotte.

The Charlatans are at it again.
They will be meeting at the Robach Center in Charlotte on Thursday, May 21, to complain about City Hall's plans to develop Charlotte's waterfront.
Their biggest complaints are about a high rise hotel. And median market value housing.
Charlatans have confused that with subsidized housing.
The truth is that they don't want an influx of black coloreds living in their pristine urban village.
Hell, they don't even like black folk taking the bus to come up to Charlotte to use the beach in the summertime. They have previously suggested ending the busline further down Lake Avenue to make such an undertaking more difficult. This suggestion becomes even more popular after fights break out on the beach during the summer.
For the last seven or eight years, computer generated graphics of the development plan featured high-rise buildings on Lake Avenue at the beach.
It was only when a black woman was elected mayor and sought to implement those plans did all Hell break loose.
Charlatans are insulated, isolated and inbred. They talk a good show about Charlotte's glorious past, forgetting that if it hadn't been for Rochester, upstream on the Genesee River, Charlotte would be nothing.
Even in its heyday, Charlotte was never one of the Great Lakes busiest ports.
While the Charlatans claim that they want development in their urban village, they have never developed any plans of their own. That's because they really don't want anything to change. All they can do is bitch about the city's plans. And draw attention to themselves again.
Like they will do on Thursday night.
The rest of the city has gotten bored with Charlotte. Rochester's troubled neighborhoods have stopped caring about the laughable antics of Charlotte Strong and are not sympathetic to their complaints.
Most feel the time, effort and money could be better spent elsewhere.
The mayor should abandon the current plans for waterfront development in Charlotte and focus on parts of the city that would welcome such attention.