MainStreet—Home for the holidays

Home for the Holidays

MainStreet and Batavia Chamber of Commerce is partnering up to present Home for the Holidays. In order to better social distance, Small Business Saturday will become Small Business Weekend for 2020. Head downtown Nov. 27, 28, & 29 with your mask for your holiday shopping. Spend $20 or more at downtown businesses and get a sticker to fill your “home” card. Fill all ten rooms of your house and you can enter to win a prize package valued over $5000. This prize package is full of ways to “Ready Your Home for the Holidays”—a free water heater and installation, couch cleaning, duct cleaning, etc. or you can select the cash prize of $500. Raffle prizes from our downtown retailers will be available for those who fill five or more rooms. Visit downtownbatavia.com or bataviachamber.org for card pickup locations and additional details.

Visit downtownbatavia.com or bataviachamber.org for a restaurant directory.

The Boardwalk Shops are eight unique seasonal retail shops located at 114 E Wilson St. at Rt. 25 and Wilson St. Each shop features a different small local business seasonally from June through December in this incubator program. This program is already a success with four of the eight businesses signing multi-year leases in brick and mortar locations in downtown Batavia and hopefully, more to come!

Shop the Boardwalk and beyond in Downtown Batavia.

Beth Walker promoted to Executive Director

Walker has been with Batavia MainStreet for a year as sponsorship coordinator and manager of the farmers’ market. She’s lived in Batavia for 20 years with her husband and two children. Beth has extensive experience with community groups, including five years as president of the Studio Batavia Visual Arts Boosters. The support of local businesses is not new to Walker, she has been an avid attendee of the Batavia farmers’ market and a frequent diner of many downtown restaurants.