Is Batavia Becoming a Ghost Town? (with Jamie Saam)
Just in time for spooky season, Batavia is facing one of the scariest prospects of all: the possibility of downtown businesses slowly dying.
These days, it's been hard to walk around downtown without being haunted by empty storefronts. There's no sugar-coating it: it's been a hard year for downtown businesses, and recent spate of closing announcements from Daddio's, Everdeens, Red Hive Market, and Beardsgaard, things are starting to feel pretty dire.
To get some perspective on this fear, we invited local business consultant with Start Something Studio and former MainStreet Batavia director…
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