Rochester: face-lift for "The World's Image Center." (6 Hot Cities for Black Business)(includes related article on Mayor William A. Johnson Jr.)

Black Enterprise | May 1, 1994| | Copyright

The signals that things would be different in Rochester came even before January's inauguration of Mayor William A. Johnson Jr. For his transition co-chairs on economic development, Johnson appointed African-American and Hispanic small-business owners and, in a role reversal, it was they who gave direction to members of the city's business establishment.

Rochester, N.Y., an old industrial city on Lake Ontario, today touts itself as "The World's Image Center," acknowledging the dominance of the city by major employers Eastman Kodak Co., Xerox Corp. and Bausch and ...

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