On Oct. 7, 1982, Marketplace Mall opened in Henrietta on what originally was marshland and from 1939 to 1971 was home to Hylan Airport, where thousands of pilots learned to fly.

Airport founder Ray Hylan, a cigar-chomping aviation pioneer, moved his school to the Rochester-Monroe County Airport and worked with the Wilmot family (owners of Wilmorite) to develop Marketplace.

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