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The houses, offices and businesses that might one day populate what is today the Inner Loop highway could tap into a massive geothermal field rivaling the largest systems of its type in New York.
“We need to make sure that we’re thinking of geothermal not as an afterthought, but as a way we consider the design,” said City Councilmember Mitch Gruber. “If we have all of that ground opened and don’t do geothermal now, we made a big mistake.”
The fill-in and removal of the remaining highway section stretching across the northern edge of downtown could cost more than $220 million and is expected to create 43 acres for development. Whatever gets built there would be able connect into the network, dubbed a geothermal bore field, to be operated by the nonprofit, member-owned Rochester District Heating Cooperative.
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