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Batavia ready to ask state to place $10 million bet on community's future

By Howard B. Owens
Jun 7, 2016, 10:32am

Just 10 years ago, Batavia was a city barely hanging on. Nobody could imagine, said City Manager Jason Molino, that things would have turned around enough by 2016 that Batavia could be a serious contender for a $10 million prize in a competition for downtown revitalization projects.

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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”