Comings & Goings: Lilac laundromat gets makeover

I have to admit I ‘ve been in more than a few laundromats over the years. I ‘ve had years when I had an appropriate washer and dryer at home, and early years when there was a blank wall and a couple of hookups where the washer and dry were supposed to go. My present when I enter a launderette is that of person who is there rather by accident, a long-distance traveler, possibly, who has accumulated bags of unwashed clothes over days on the road doing something big for world.

occasionally, for some reason, I pretend I pulled into township on a gravy boat and am doing the gang ‘s laundry out of the good of my oceangoing heart. Of path, none of this fools the other people huddled around the only dryers that exercise. They merely see me as rival. Coin laundries need more upgrades than they normally get. It is dearly-won to get in triple-loaders and new dryers. But Rochester ‘s Tom and Mike Alesi, who bought three Lilac Laundry and Dry Cleaners businesses from longtime owners Joe and Don Goldman a couple of years ago — and a fourthly years before that — recently finished major improvements at all the Lilac laundries in the area. “ We have GIANT washers and dryers large enough to hold up to eight loads of laundry, ” Tom Alesi said in a recent electronic mail. The Lilacs — there are outlets in Irondequoit and Gates and on North Clinton Avenue and Monroe Avenue in the city — are nowadays equipped with TVs, absolve WiFi, air travel stipulate ( at some locations ) and energy-efficient machines. There are a distribute of newfangled machines, in other words. The crew should be identical happy when you get bet on to the transport. For data, go to Lilac Coin Laundry LLC ‘s Facebook page. Sub shop opens in EarthLink building The substitute chain Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches has opened a restaurant at 330 Monroe Ave., corner of Monroe and Alexander Street in the city. The workshop is on the earth floor of the new EarthLink build on the grounds of the former Genesee Hospital. local anesthetic developers Buckingham Properties has renovated or built respective former checkup buildings on the web site, calling the complex Alexander Park.

Jimmy John ‘s has early stores in Henrietta and Webster. They specialize in making and delivering a compass of submarine sandwiches to customers “ freaky fast, ” another and hipper way of saying unusually flying. Hours are 11 ante meridiem to 10 post meridiem Sunday through Wednesday ; 11 ante meridiem to 3 ante meridiem Thursday through Saturday. Retailer moves into Henrietta mall In time for the vacation race, a Toys ‘R’ Us Express has opened in the Macy ‘s Wing at The Marketplace in Henrietta. The storehouse comes in at about 3,700 square feet, and will serve as a merchant of slenderly less stuff than is available at the big, standalone Toys ‘R ‘ Us on Hylan Drive across from the promenade. But, though the inventory is smaller, the shop will have the most popular toys and gifts, according to the caller. HomeGoods not eyeing Monroe County Word has filtered down from readers and local retailers that HomeGoods, a range store than focuses on furniture, bed, interior decoration and the like, is planning to open an mercantile establishment in Monroe County. Webster was mentioned as a possible site. The erstwhile Borders store on Hylan Drive in Henrietta was besides cited.

The party is making a western New York push ; it ‘s opened a store in Victor and plans to in Orchard Park and Williamsville near Buffalo. But a spokesman for TJX Inc., HomeGoods ‘ parent, said no stores are planned for Monroe County at this time. Raise your hand if you ‘ve heard that one earlier .