Editing IBM Rochester (section)

==History==
===Early years===
IBM's CEO [[Thomas J. Watson Jr.]] reportedly chose the site of Rochester in honor of his copilot during [[World War II]], Leland Fiegel, who lived there.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McElvenny |first=Ralph |title=The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived |last2=Wortman |first2=Marc |isbn=978-1-5417-6852-9 |pages=311}}</ref> [[Groundbreaking]] took place on July 31, 1956.  When it was first completed, there was {{convert|576,000|sqft}} of floor space. After expansion, it has {{convert|3.1|e6sqft}} on the main campus, more than half the size of [[the Pentagon]] in [[Arlington, Virginia]].

The building was first dedicated in 1958, but has been expanded considerably since then.

===Current developments===
[[File:IBM Rochester Technology Campus.jpg|thumb|right|The site was renamed Rochester Technology Campus.]]
Employment at the site has gone through several cycles of growth and collapse, but is over twice what it was in the 1950s.

On May 4, 2016, it was announced that IBM would consolidate its remaining employees into the eight buildings on the east side of the complex and sell the remaining facilitates to a separate entity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/ibm-to-sell-buildings-consolidate-campus/article_8a84da67-c943-5c50-bcb2-f0b257d71aaa.html|title=IBM to sell buildings, consolidate campus|date=May 5, 2016}}</ref> This occurred after years of IBM renting out its various facilities to companies it had spun or sold off such as [[HGST]]. The site's employee count (excluding contractors) was reported to be 2,740 in 2013 and 2,791 in 2017, a steep decline from the high of over 8,000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.postbulletin.com/business/rochester-ibm-head-count/article_b21477fa-de71-58b5-b4c1-59b64c3cdc8c.html|title=Rochester IBM head count: 2,740|date=November 18, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.postbulletin.com/blogs/kigersnotebook/rochester-ibm-employee-numbers-are-up/article_3e193a24-09e8-11e8-9193-4bb95d9d2a36.html#targetText=This%20year%27s%20posting%20dated%20Jan,on%20the%20same%20OSHA%20form. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204231615/http://www.postbulletin.com/blogs/kigersnotebook/rochester-ibm-employee-numbers-are-up/article_3e193a24-09e8-11e8-9193-4bb95d9d2a36.html#targetText=This%20year%27s%20posting%20dated%20Jan,on%20the%20same%20OSHA%20form. |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 4, 2018 |title=Rochester IBM employee numbers are ... up? |last=Jeff |first=Kiger |date=February 4, 2018 |work=Rochester Post-Bulletin |access-date=October 28, 2019 }}</ref>

In February 2018 the property was sold to Industrial Realty Group of Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://krocam.com/from-rapid-growth-to-slow-decline-history-of-ibm-rochester/|title=From Rapid Growth to Slow Decline - History of IBM-Rochester|last=Andy Brownell|website=News Talk 1340 KROC-AM|language=en|access-date=August 19, 2019}}</ref>

On April 24, 2018, in a presentation to the local community, it was announced that the site was renamed Rochester Technology Campus.<ref name="kttc-2018-04-24">{{cite web
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|title=Big Blue campus gets new name, community gets new opportunities
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|first=James
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|access-date=April 25, 2018
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