Downtown Businesses Express Disappointment Over Jazz Fest Move (Rochester: live, friendly)

[ckhthankgod]

"Businesses in downtown Rochester are reacting after it was announced Thursday that the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival will take place on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus this year, rather than downtown.

Jim Kaiser is a regular at Temple Bar and Grill on East Avenue.

“It’s just a friendly environment. I come here a few times a week, and quite frankly, it’s a nice place to wind down after a tough day at work,” Kaiser said.

And he likes the bar for the same reason he loves downtown.

“That’s why I live downtown. It’s because of the wonderful, wonderful cultural things that happen in this city,” Kaiser said."

More: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/ro...jazz-fest-move

[leadfoot4]

I understand the man's disappointment, but people, NATURALLY, can't help but get too close, in the downtown setting. The real problem is once things go through a change, it's difficult to go back to the previous way of doing things.