A silk purse from a sow's ear?

Used to be when a landlord was looking to rehab an apartment building for new tenants, they'd take out a loan or dip into savings.In today's world, however, they go to the City of Rochester and ask city leaders to get taxpayers to help pay for it.The use of 79-E, a statute designed to incentivize investment in the downtown by developers, allows them to buy unimproved buildings and make improvements, but then only pay taxes on the unimproved assessed value for a number of years.In the case of 135...