Monroe County Executive Adam Bello is asking lawmakers to approve spending upward of $26 million to buy and renovate a vacant office building near Kodak Tower for government offices.
That includes $4 million for the former Carestream Building on Verona Street, and lease of the adjacent parking lot. The dollar figure aligns with the building’s taxable assessed value but far exceeds the $1.1 million that Bathla 150 Holdings LLC paid for the property when it last sold in November 2024, records show.
The five- to nine-story, 402,000-square-foot building was built in 1982…