It’s a project called Rails to Trails and it’s intended to make it easier for the tens of thousands of people who now make the Saturday pilgrimage to the Rochester Public Market on Union Street.

It’s not a stretch to say the Public Market is the heart of Rochester on Saturday morning. People come from all over, but finding a parking space has been tough until now.

Tom Mancuso remembers working at the public market as a boy.

Tom Mancuso said, “Actually I was around nine years old when I started to come here. I lived on Third Street. I worked with the Arena Brothers separating tomatoes. It is a fun destination and it's probably the biggest cultural thing that's going on in Rochester right now.”

Eating a fresh apple, substitute teacher and vegetarian Robert Thornton said he's a big fan of the public market.

Thornton said, “I think the public market is great. You have a variety of foods, you have farmers.

A stress and hassle free experience -- that's what officials say you'll find when you walk into Rochester General Hospital

The $1.1-million Rick Constantino, MD Patient Access Center is now open to the public. It's the first destination for a lot of patients.

RGH officials say it makes the preadmission process much easier and comfortable. Tara Hillegeer said, “It brings really two groups of folks into one central location -- double the square footage. It's beautiful as you can see -- everything is state of the art, newly remodeled. It just means such great access for our patients.”

The new patient access center is named after respected physician -- Rick Constantino. He's been an RGH mainstay for more than three decades.

Eighty-seven people including family, friends, co-workers and even patients donated money to make it happen.

Parking, transportation to campus, a prominent location, and flexible space for growth-- that's what the president of MCC wants for her downtown campus. Tonight, Rochester Mayor Tom Richards said the Sibley Building can provide that.

It was a last-minute pitch to the Board of Trustees. Richards pulled out all the stops to convince the board to take another look at the Sibley Building, and to convince the board that its downtown campus belongs in that building.

"Really there's only that concentration of facilities of those kinds of things in downtown Rochester. Nowhere else you can get it. It's juxtaposed to all the kinds of facilities that can enhance your college education downtown. It's two blocks away from the Eastman Theatre, two blocks away from the library, from the Y," said Richards.

He also pointed out the building's history. "It's an iconic building. It's downtown.