The Changing Scene was a rotating restaurant atop the First Federal Plaza building in downtown Rochester. The restaurant offered a 360 degree view of downtown. It was scheduled to open in August 1977; a July notice from the Democrat & Chronicle offered free rides in its glass elevator as part of the new Riverview Market opening at the Plaza. The restaurant closed October 21, 1988.
Articles about its closing appeared in the October 18 and October 27, 1988 issues of the Democrat & Chronicle.
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The rotating rotunda is now home to 7,000 square feet of office space.
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2023-12-19 20:26:12 I don't think it rotates any more. I was last up there about 8 years ago and the construction of the offices prevented the rotation. I wish I remembered for sure, but I thought someone said the mechanism didn't even work any more. (I can't remember if it was stated as a fact or if someone was just theorizing.) —badfish
