High Falls District

Location

Downtown, centered on 60 Browns Race, Rochester, NY 14614 Street View Google Map

Boundaries

Surrounded by Verona Street, Brown Street, the Genesee River, the Inner Loop, I-490, and Morris Silver Way

Neighborhood Association

RochesterDowntown.com

Officially called the High Falls Heritage Area and Brown's Race Historic District, this is the downtown neighborhood centered on the High Falls. The City invested millions in the 1990s to turn it into an entertainment district; unfortunately, this failed. Since then, however, the High Falls District has rebounded as an office district, boasting (as of October 2015) a 96% occupancy rate while the rest of downtown struggles to fill its office space.¹ The Kodak Headquarters are currently in the process of being converted to MCC's new downtown campus.

The High Falls District also has a growing residential population.

The High Falls Center & Interpretive Museum is a popular tourist attraction. Frontier Field is also located here.

• DiPisa Old World Submarines
  

• Happy Gut Sanctuary
  

• La Luna
  

• Max at High Falls

Wheel, 8-2011

• Chait Studios
  

• Gray CPA Certified Public Accountants
  

• HR Benefits Advisors
  

• Leveraging Technology
  

• Navalis Construction
  

• Philipson Group
  

• Roberts Communications
  

• SEI Design Group
  

• Stantec Consulting Services

• Cowork @ Grid
  

• ESL Federal Credit Union
  

• High Falls Center & Interpretive Museum
  

• Louelle Design Studio
  

• Made on State
  

• Mill Clothier - High Falls
  

• Rochester Plumbing Supply Building - Apartments
  

• Rochester Red Wings Team Store
  

• WXXI

Also check out the Genesee Brew House right across the pedestrian bridge, technically in the Upper Falls neighborhood.

Historic Architecture, 8-2011

• Highfalls on NYFalls.com
  

• Neighborhood profile from Celebrate City Living
  

• View from High Falls District - Photo on City-Data.com

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2008-07-08 12:32:02   This area is straight Hood thats why it is dead. —UofREmployee

2008-07-08 15:30:59   high falls is hood? you have no idea what hood is. —JohnJoseph

2008-07-08 17:13:40   No its not the hood, but to say it isn't within a few blocks of "hood-like" areas would be a lie. High Falls just happened to be on the wrong side of the Inner Loop. —TippingPoint

2008-07-16 23:50:00   being near "'hood like' areas" is a lot different than being "hood." You people really need a reality check —JohnJoseph

2011-09-25 17:22:23   This area is most certainly not "hood." It's actually quite nice and the fact that it's "dead" is really too bad. Has a couple nice shops and amazing views. —EileenF