Innovation Square, formerly Xerox Tower, is a

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in downtown

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, standing at tall. The tower is the centerpiece of a roughly complex named ''Xerox Square''. When it was built in 1967, it was the tallest building made of poured-in-place exposed aggregate concrete. It is the

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, as well as the third

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. It was initially used as the headquarters of

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. The "Digital X" Xerox logo at the top of the building was removed in 2005 with Xerox's new positioning away from "The Document Company" signature and the related logo in use since 1994. On April 18, 2009, Xerox announced their wish to sell the tower and other buildings in Xerox Square, and lease back the office space. In August 2013 the property was sold to Buckingham Properties for $40 million. Under the terms of the sale Xerox will continue to lease space in the building for eight years, with an option to renew. Between the Summer and Autumn of 2015, a multi-color light display was added to all four corners of the tower roof. The complex formerly featured an outdoor skating rink, and an English pub-style restaurant called ''The Shakespeare'', both of which operated until the late 1970s or 1980s before being converted to a private outdoor lounge for Xerox employees. On January 26, 2018, Xerox has announced that it would vacate the entire building to move all its local employees to

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. More recently, it was sold to Gallina Development. Gallina announced that it would rename the complex "Innovation Square" and retrofit it with housing, commercial, and college student living space. The auditorium, which was kept, reopened as a performing arts center in September 2021.

Gallery

File:Xerox Square east entrance.JPG, East entrance, showing plaza File:Xerox Square entrance to parking garage.JPG, Parking garage entrance File:Xerox Square plaque.JPG, Plaque before it became Innovation Square File:Xerox Square plaza.JPG, Plaza. Formerly an ice skating rink File:Xerox Square skyway to Midtown Plaza.JPG, Former skyway to the former Midtown Plaza File:Xerox Square tower base.JPG, Base File:Xerox Tower façade.JPG, Façade, south side File:Rochester - Court Street at night.jpg, Xerox Tower before the "X" was removed

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