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The 2019 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival featured nine nights of concerts on Parcel 5. Downtown Rochester bar owners are hoping the organizers of the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival will change their mind on moving the event to Henrietta, if not this year, then next. Festival co-producers Marc Iacona and John Nugent announced Thursday that they plan to move the nine-day concert series from its traditional location downtown to the Rochester Institute of Technology, in part to adhere to current social distancing guidelines. The event attracted more that 200,000 people in 2019. Michael O’Leary, who has owned Temple Bar and Grille on East Avenue for the last 14 years, said the last one has been the hardest. He had 22 employees a year ago. Today, he has seven. Like most bar owners, the pandemic forced him to seek aid from the city, the county, and the federal government just to stay afloat.
Restaurant owners in Rochester’s “orange zone” are cautiously celebrating a decision by state officials, spurred by an Erie County court ruling, that will allow them to offer indoor dining again, but at half-capacity. The state’s decision is a win of sorts for restaurant owners, who have been calling on the state to let them reopen their dining rooms. It also means scores of restaurant employees will be able to go back to work. Chuck Cerankosky, owner of Good Luck, Lucky’s, and CURE, said the change in designation would allow at least 80 percent of his furloughed staff to return.