DEVELOPMENT | BY JEREMY MOULE

The local attorney who led the site selection process for Frontier Field will lead Rochester Broadway Theatre League's search for a new theater site, RBTL officials announced this morning.

Frank Hagelberg will chair the RBTL board's site selection committee, and real estate developer Jay Birnbaum will serve as an advisor.

The other members of the committee are Lydia Boddie-Rice, public-affairs manager, RG&E, Robert Mann, president, Mann's Jewelers; Richard Kaplan, president, Pictometry International Corp; retired business executive James Briggs, and Steve Martin, vice president, public relations and marketing, Canandaigua National Bank.

RBTL officials are calling the new process "the Phoenix Project" in an effort to differentiate it from Renaissance Square, board chair Arnie Rothschild said during a press conference this morning. A 2,800-seat theater for RBTL was part of the Renaissance Square project.

RBTL officials will meet next Monday with municipal officials and real estate developers who have expressed interest in the theater. RBTL has been contacted by government officials in Brighton, Chili, the city of Canandaigua, Henrietta, Irondequoit, Ogden, Pittsford, Sweden, Victor, and Webster. Candidates for office or community groups from Gates, Penfield, and Rochester have also contacted RBTL, Rothschild said, and developers in Brockport, Greece, Farmington, Gates, Brighton, and Pittsford have said they are interested in the theater.

"Everything's on the table, and nothing's been ruled out," Birnbaum said.