Neighborhoods

'A city within a city': Kascades, the residential-meets-commercial-meets-lifestyle development slated for the city's northern edge, has been called "the next construction revolution in Rochester" and "a subdivision that's changed the thinking of the city."

History on the Hill: San Francisco has Nob Hill, Chicago has the Gold Coast, and St. Paul has Summit Avenue. Here in Rochester, though, Pill Hill is the neighborhood that's the stuff of legends.

Old houses, renewed appeal: If you ask Kutzky Park residents what they love most about their neighborhood, you'll get strikingly similar answers from strikingly dissimilar sources, whether you're talking to Tom Hennessey, who's lived in the neighborhood since 1933, or to Kellie Threinen, who just moved in five years ago.

'Smart growth,' 1940s style: "Smart growth" is a common buzz phrase in housing development these days. Four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline and urban sprawl are among the factors that have builders and planners talking about creating self-sufficient neighborhoods where residents can walk to work, school, church, the playground and the grocery store.