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Malik Evans: “What's now going to be called Taylor Square, which was the…”

Featuring: Malik Evans, Democratic | Mayor of Rochester, New York

An Interview with Mayor Malik Evans!

Published February 8, 2025 | Video Starts at 26:37

I think Main and Clinton was huge because that's something that was an I store that people talked about regularly. But I also got to give a shout out to What's now going to be called Taylor Square, which was the former Hickey Freeman that was getting ready to go out of business. And we worked together with the county executive, this Senator Schumer, Empire State Development, Governor Hochul, to save that. And now it's going to be turned into Taylor Square. So. (26:37–26:42)

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Asserts that the former Hickey Freeman site will be redeveloped into Taylor Square.

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