The Carr's building in Downtown Batavia.Photo by Howard Owens. This last week of May was capped off with bountiful news for property owner Ken Mistler and downtown Batavia as a whole with the
The future entrance/exit to The Bowery, a new entertainment venue to open in the fall 2023 in the City of Batavia. Photo by Joanne Beck. There’s a richly iconic salon in New York City known for being
During the downtown annual beer walk, an out-of-town participant won a gift card, which not only brought her back, but she had her whole family in tow. They shopped at Empire Hemp and booked a massage at The Spa at Artemis, promising to return for dinner and stop into Valle Jewelers to browse and hopefully purchase some of the shop’s dazzling items on display. That is perhaps
December means a triple-play for Batavia Players, Pat Burk says. Actually, there’s only one play, “A Christmas Carole,” that runs Thursday through Sunday, plus Our Hometown Christmas all day Saturday inside Batavia City Centre, and spaghetti with Santa event on Dec. 11. If that schedule tires you out, it has been plenty for members of the theater group. In addition to many of
The Carr’s Reborn project for the former C.L. Carr Department Store on Main Street has met another goal to get the project moving. Approved by the Downtown Revitalization Initiative Committee earlier this month, the project received City Council’s blessing Monday to be part of a Restore NY grant application for $2 million. No one spoke during a public hearing about the