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Oster of Rochester's Cornerstone: Successful projects

The NYREJ recently sat down with Carol Oster of Rochester's Cornerstone Group, Ltd., for a question and answer session. Q: What has been your companies' biggest challenge so far this year? A: Limited Federal Tax Credit resources and falling area median incomes. Q: What has been your companies' greatest accomplishment? A: Completing successful affordable rental housing projects throughout Monroe County - most recently, Rockwood Center at Brentland Woods in Henrietta, Monarch Senior Living in Webster and El Camino Estates Phase II in the city of Rochester. Q: What are you and your firm looking forward to in 2014? A: Constructing and preserving 300+ units of affordable and market rate rental housing. Q: What can your company offer our readers? A: Rochester's Cornerstone Group can provide development services for market rate and affordable rental housing, including redevelopment and preservation of existing housing stock. Carol Oster is vice president, development services of Rochester's Cornerstone Group, Ltd., Rochester, N.Y.
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