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GCEDC approves incentives for hotel at Batavia Downs

By Traci Turner
Jun 25, 2015, 5:38pm

The Genesee Economic Development Center Board voted unanimously to approve ADK Hospitality’s application for approximately $638,000 in tax exemptions during a special meeting this afternoon.

ADK is planning to build an 84-room hotel connected to the Batavia Downs gaming facility. The investment is estimated at $5.49 million.

The board agreed with ADK Hospitality that

Before Urban Renewal: My Downtown Batavia favorites

By David Reilly
Nov 26, 2023, 3:11pm

Since 2018 I have been writing nostalgic stories for The Batavian about growing up in Batavia, New York, in the 1950s and 1960s. In some of those stories, I made mention of some of the businesses that were located in what we always called “Downtown.”

Due to “urban renewal”