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Large Rochester Companies Fill up Business Park and Provide New Jobs
Rochester, NY – With over 3,000 employees already at work, large Rochester companies are looking to add more to the LeFrois-owned Calkins Road Business Park. Just last week, Pictometry International Corp. moved in with their 223 employees to a 72,000 SF

LeFrois Builders and Developers Wins Award for Over $40 Million in Butler Manufacturing Sales
Rochester, NY – On Monday, February 23, LeFrois Builders and Developers received an award from Butler Manufacturing for over $40 million in cumulative Butler Manufacturing sales. LeFrois executives attended a meeting at Butler Manufacturing in Nashville, Tennessee where they were honored

LeFrois Made RBJ’s Sq. Footage Top 5 List
Recently, LeFrois made Rochester Business Journal’s Real Estate Developers List for local non-residential square footage. We ranked 4th for our existing local non-residential square footage. And number TWO for our 72,500 sq.ft. of development underway! Check out RBJ’s graph below!

3 Ways to Minimize Maintenance Costs on Your Building This Winter
[updated January 2018] When Winter Meets Construction Winter can be a brutal time for your building. If you’re a tenant of one of our Rochester area projects, the heavy snow and icy aftermath can snowball into some costly maintenance. Take

So You Want to Build a Building: Where to Begin?
Congratulations! You’ve decided you want a building! Now comes the fun part: getting it built! But let’s not jump the gun quite yet. A lot of work goes into every building project before a shovel can even enter the ground.

“What Construction Process Should I Choose?”: Hard Bid Versus Design/Build
When you’re determining which route to take to construct your building, you may wonder if it’s better to go with a Hard Bid set of plans or to contract a company that will design and build your project. While either

Building “Green” for I-Square
LeFrois Helps Irondequoit Decrease Pollution to Lake Ontario IRONDEQUOIT – Lifelong resident, Mike Nolan, set out to build Irondequoit its own town center, “I-Square”. Nolan chose LeFrois as construction manager because “LeFrois is like a friend.” Nolan claims, “I’m not

What Is Revit?
Revit is a type of architectural software that is changing the entire building and design business. It is changing the way plans are transformed from one person’s vision to being a reality for everyone involved in the project. Revit brings

What is BIM (Building Information Modeling)?
Thanks to modern technology and innovations in design and architecture, there are ways for all parties involved in a project to see exactly what will be brought to life. That technology is Building Information Modeling, or BIM. BIM allows for
