Clock of Nations now on display at Tower 280 in Rochester
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A Rochester icon is back: The Clock of Nations!It's in Tower280 on E. Broad Street, just feet from its original location in Midtown Plaza.
The clock had been in storage at the Rochester airport until Ken Glazer, CEO of Buckingham Properties, started to rehab the clock with his team and in partnership with the City of Rochester and Monroe County.
Glazer said that the clock was much heavier than the team had anticipated, and they needed to make special accommodations to store and work on it.
With no manual or blueprints, Glazer says the Buckingham team and other local artists and contributors got the clock in working order.
City and project leaders talked about how this installation will continue to spark revitalization downtown while reminding Rochesterians of the City's history and of 'meeting people under the clock.'
'So many people have reached out, and they all started with 'my grandfather used to take me here,'' Glazer said at an unveiling event Thursday. '[It's] a connection to downtown that we lost for a while, and it brings families together.'
'The future we are living is mixed-use,' said Rochester Mayor Malik Evans, when discussing the froer use of the Midtown Plaza as an all-commerical shopping mall. 'You have businesses on the first floor… Housing and businesses side by side. That is what Rochester's future is, and that is what this clock symbolizes.'
The clock is open to the public every day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and will be on at different times throughout the day.
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