PathStone in the News

PathStone Selected to Host Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship

Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship
PathStone in Puerto Rico has been selected as a host organization for the “The Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship.”  The mission of the Rose Fellowship is to inspire and nurture a new generation of architects as lifelong leaders dedicated to creating sustainable communities for people at all income levels. 
 The Rose Fellows use their [...]

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PathStone’s Pathways Out of Poverty Program Featured, CarribeanBusinessPR.com

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PathStone Develops Youth Action Team in Marketview Heights

Rochester, N.Y. –In the Marketview Heights neighborhood of Rochester, there is a group of residents who not only want to see change in their community but actively engage in changing it.  Called the Collective Action Project, it consists of three Action Teams: Safety and Security, Housing and Development, and Beautification.  For the past six years, [...]

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PathStone’s Cedar Creek Apartments Featured in The Ithaca Journal

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PathStone Featured in Puerto Rico’s Daily Sun Newspaper

Local residents to train for ‘green jobs’ through federal grant
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PathStone Featured in The Times Tribune

$2.3 million federal grant will train 200 local residents for jobs
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PathStone’s $8 Million Grant Featured in Rochester Business Journal

PathStone Corp. receives $8 million for green job training
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Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Rochester Employment And Training Center Will Get Access To $8 Million For Green Job Training

Federal Dollars Will Provide Training for Clean Energy Jobs at PathStone Corporation

January 13, 2010
Today, U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced that PathStone Corporation of Rochester will gain access to $8 million over two years through the U.S. Department of Labor’s Green for Gold project to help individuals find jobs within energy efficiency [...]

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PathStone Celebrates 10 Years of Operations in Puerto Rico

PathStone (formerly ROI) is celebrating 10 years of providing affordable housing, job training, employment, health and safety services, homeownership promotion, financing, training and technical assistance to entrepreneurs, and other related human services in Puerto Rico. To celebrate this milestone and to share our future plans,we invite you to join us at several events throughout the [...]

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Federal Stimulus Funds Support Renovation of Stonewood Village, Henrietta N.Y.

December 17, 2009
PathStone Corporation begins construction on Stonenewood Village
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
ROCHESTER N.Y.-Officials at PathStone Corporation (formerly Rural Opportunities, Inc.) announced that construction will began this week on the renovation of Stonewood Village, located at 200 Myrtle Drive, Henrietta N.Y. The complex was built in 1979 and has 124 family townhouse units and 64 apartment units dedicated [...]

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Cedar Creek Apartments, Ithaca, N.Y.

Cedar Creek is PathStone’s first affordable rental development in the City of Ithaca. Built on the side of a hill overlooking the Cayuga Lake Inlet, residents have  views of Cornell University, Ithaca College and the City’s Skyline. Constructing 39 new energy efficient units of affordable housing and a community building in seven structures on the [...]

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Albion Academy revitalization wins AIA recognition

Published on Thursday, June 25, 2009 in  WIVB
The Albion Academy Apartments & Community Space in Albion, New York was recently selected for special recognition by the Rochester Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, as part of their annual Design Excellence Awards. This historically sensitive revitalization of a neglected and aging school building into modern [...]

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Volunteers plant goodwill during time in Lima

Published on June 9, 2009
By Heather Rutz
LIMA - It was a good day to get the garden in, and Natalie Reyes was happy to do it knowing nearby residents would benefit long after she’s returned to her hometown.
 Reyes, 17, of Napoleon, volunteered Tuesday through nonprofit groups PathStone and NeighborWorks during NeighborWorks America week.
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Adult day care starts in Orleans

Published on June 4, 2009, in the Batavia News
By Tom Rivers
ALBION — Those who serve as caretakers for Orleans County senior citizens who have dementia now have an option for respite care during the day.
The Arc of Orleans County on Monday started an adult day care from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the former [...]

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Community gardens cropping up in Rochester area

After 325 Union St. multifamily house was demolished, an empty lot was left with nothing but weeds, rocks and patchy grass. However, last spring changed the area completely. The installation of a garden which contains flowers and vegetable, gave the area a new look. These gardens are popping up all over Rochester.

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Ribbon is Cut for $64 Million Renovation to Former Crossroads Apartments in Downtown Rochester

Published May 15, 2009, By Peter Iglinski of WXXI
ROCHESTER, NY (WXXI) - The former Crossroads Apartments in downtown Rochester officially took on a new life Friday following a $64 million renovation project.
The subsidized housing units–located on the east bank of the Genesee River on St. Paul Street–were recently renamed the Andrews Terrace Apartments, after former [...]

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PathStone unveils new apartments

PathStone held a ceremony for the opening of the $64 million Andrews Terrace Apartments. It provides 526 units of affordable housing for seniors and people with disabilities. PathStone restored the apartment complex by linking two buildings, upgrading interiors and adding resident amenities. This is the largest project in PathStone’s history.

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Abuse of migrant farmworker women brought to light

Published May 13, 2009, in the Catholic Courier  By Annette Jimenez 
BROCKPORT — Isabela traveled from Florida last month to plant onions in the fields of a farm in Elba, Genesee County. She did not expect to find herself living in a trailer with 15 migrant workers, all of who are men.
  During this temporary arrangement, [...]

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From the Ashes of an Abandoned Eyesore, comes New Senior Housing in Lyons

PathStone invited the public and local officials to the unveiling of their latest development, CanalView Apartments. The 36- unit complex will house seniors 55 and older who meet income and occupancy requirements. Located along the Erie Canal, each resident will enjoy a screened porch, on site laundry facility and much more.

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PathStone’s Canal View Apartments in Lyons

Mary E. McCrank
Director of Corporate Communications and Fundraising
April 30, 2009
ROCHESTER, N.Y.-A new affordable housing complex for senior citizens in the heart of the Village of Lyons has been getting rave reviews from longtime residents who remember the days when the site housed abandoned apartments.
Today-Thursday, April 30, 2009-Rochester not-for-profit PathStone Corporation will celebrate the grand opening [...]

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PathStone awarded $1.3 million contract through stimulus spending to help seniors with job training

Mary E. McCrank
Director of Corporate Communications and Fundraising
April 3, 2009
ROCHESTER, NY-PathStone Corporation has been awarded a $1.3 million contract to help low-income older workers re-enter the workforce as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The National Council on Aging (NCOA), which has an ongoing relationship with PathStone, was awarded a total of $6.9 million [...]

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PathStone awarded $1.74 million in grants

Mary E. McCrank
Director of Corporate Communications and Fundraising
April 6, 2009
Announcement comes on heels of $1.3 million stimulus grant
to assist low-income working seniors
ROCHESTER, NY-PathStone Corporation today was notified it has been awarded $1.74 million in funding that is coming to New York State through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to build affordable housing [...]

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PathStone offering help to Canandaigua homeowners

PathStone is offering its home repair program to homeowners in Canandaigua, N.Y., who earn less than 50 percent of the area median income. City of Canandaigua officials are working with PathStone to accommodate residents by chipping in for a portion of the work.

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PathStone’s Housing Rehabilitation & Energy Services included in national story

WASHINGTON, DC - NeighborWorks® America today announced that as part of its goal to advance energy efficiency and environmental quality of affordable residential housing it invested $230,000 in targeted residential rehabilitation projects in 12 states. “Weatherization is absolutely an effective way for homeowners to reduce their energy expenses,” said Dale Prunoske, Director, Housing Rehabilitation Programs, at PathStone Corporation, a Rochester, NY-based chartered member of the NeighborWorks network.

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PathStone to show community new homes in Indiana

The City of Anderson and Pathstone Corporation First Home Advantage will host an open house celebration from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 26.

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PathStone helps seniors in Dutchess County

Adults 55 and over looking for employment, may find assistance from the Senior Community Service Employment Program operated by PathStone Corporation in Dutchess County.

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Greece Firefighters Get Special Honors

A group of firefighters received recognition Monday for their courageous efforts in a fire last month.
Members of the Greece Fire Department got flowers, awards, applause and gratitude, as PathStone Corporation thanked them for their hard work in the fire at the Ada Ridge apartment building on Long Pond Road January 23.

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Ada Ridge seniors honor Greece firefighters after fire

GREECE - When fire erupted in a building under construction at the Ada Ridge Court apartments last month, firefighters from four different departments rushed to the scene and helped prevent the blaze from spreading to a nearby apartment building full of senior citizens.

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PathStone Head Start Applauded

PathStone’s Head Start program in Adams County, Pa., was recently applauded for providing quality early child care.

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HISTORIC: Preserving the community building with renovation to 30-bed senior housing

ALBION - With a long history in the Albion community, the Albion Academy will soon be open for use again, offering senior living and services. A grand opening celebration will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, signifying the end of many years of hard work and dedication.

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Elbridge tenants to buy mobile home park

Elbridge tenants to buy mobile home park

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Champion mobile home park becoming a co-op

When word got out that current owner Marc Seigle planned on selling the park last July, residents united. Now the group has formed a not-for-profit homeowners association among park residents.

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Creating opportunities by building new home

Sandy Williamson knows what it’s like to live out of a trailer on the road, and by this summer, she’ll know what it’s like to live in her own, brand-new house.

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Housing complex for migrant workers opens

A 14-unit development that will provide housing for 52 migrant farm workers opened in Aspers on Tuesday.

The development, dubbed Jonathan Court Apartments, consists of seven single-story duplex buildings at 1731 Center Mills Road.

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Migrant workers “like family”

Most migrant workers will tell you it’s the best job they ever had–earning minimum wage trimming and packing cabbage.

Miguel Rodriguez has been working at similar jobs since he was 16, and though he says he is in America legally now, still, he is afraid everyday.

He said, “I was afraid of being sent back and of never being allowed to come back.”

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Illegal immigrants now under tighter focus here

Farmers, workers worry about enforcement team.
A “Fugitive Operations Team” formed late last year has removed hundreds of illegal aliens across the state - and could explain why area farmers and their immigrant employees have recently felt more scrutiny from immigration officials.

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Neighborhood comes alive on city’s north side

The peaceful neighborhood feel of Elmside Street was disrupted Friday afternoon.

Stuck in the middle of the street on the northern border of Alliance was a white tent, what proved to be an unnecessary precaution against foretasted rain. Inside the tent, Rural Opportunities Inc. and its partners celebrated.

Celebrated the completion of Alliance Homes II, the construction of 37 three- and four-bedroom homes in the city.

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Immigration march, rally

In Rochester, hundreds turn out for march and rally. They came with placards, T-shirts and an immutable grudge against lawmakers who want to criminalize illegal immigration.

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Tighter borders could change face of region

Thousands come to work; some stay for good. Josefino Paz’s journey began in the early 1980s when he was a teenager and came into this country illegally from Mexico.

It was not an easy journey, but he persevered, worked hard and made a life here.

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Local immigrants and the law

Immigration laws are being debated at the national level as the US Senate works through recommendations to change the law.

The House already has its own version of a law with tougher penalties for illegal immigrants.

Librada Paz arrived from Mexico in 1989 to work in the farm fields. She said, “Our parents could not afford us, support us…I came with a big hope. I was lucky.”

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