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Kodak Shows Off HQ Space Available to MCC

Officials from Eastman Kodak say 549-thousand square feet of underutilized building space would be a good home for a new Monroe Community College downtown campus.

The buildings sit south of the Kodak Tower, facing Morrie Silver Way. Four of the five office spaces are vacant and available for MCC to use.

Arline Liberti, Kodak's manager of Rochester Facilities,  says bringing MCC's Damon campus to the company's headquarters would be a “win-win” situation.

"We have a great neighborhood here in the High Falls neighborhood," Liberti says.  "There's restaurants, we're on a bus route, and there's so many different advantages. I think it would be great, and [would] bring a lot of vitality to the area and to Kodak as well."

Liberti says Kodak's building space is flexible and adaptable.

Meanwhile, MCC Board of Trustee member, John Parrinello, says the college has narrowed down its downtown campus site to either the Sibley Building in midtown or space in Kodak.

During Thursday's tour of the film giant's facilities, Parrinello says he's impressed with the space, as well as it's surroundings. As for the Sibley building, he says he has some concerns, including protestors using the nearby Liberty Pole, which he says could interfere with students coming to school.

"Our main thing is we have budgetary restraints," Parrinello adds. "So...part of the decision is whether or not we can accomplish our goals or not, from a financial standpoint, in comparing the two buildings and the needs that they have in order to convert it to prime usable space for the approximately 3,500 students."

Parrinello says MCC is looking to purchase the building it selects.

These photos show a portion of the available space inside Kodak's Headquarters complex.  Kodak is hoping Monroe Community College will use the space for its downtown campus.  The company showed off some of its 549,000 square feet of empty space as part of a media tour Thursday afternoon.

The photos in the slideshow below show office space, cubicles, rooms that could be used as classrooms and even a cafeteria.