Revitalizing Retail Event

The Rochester Regional Community Design Center invites interested parties to attend a lecture about Revitalizing Retail in the Rochester region. We are a non-profit organization that promotes community-based design and planning for a healthy and livable built environment. Please join us at the lecture and share this information widely. Event details below:


How can a small business, a village Main Street or an urban retail district enjoy the same successes as a mega-mall?

Join us for Revitalizing Retail to find out.


What: Revitalizing Retail, a lecture and discussion led by national retail authority Robert Gibbs

When: Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at 7 pm

Where: Little Theatre 1, 240 East Avenue, Rochester 14607

Topics covered include:
- The history of Urban Decline
- New Trends in Revitalization
- Merchandising 101: Tips and tricks for small businesses
- Top 20 Strategies to increase Main Street and Downtown sales

Speaker Bio: Robert Gibbs develops innovative, yet practical, methods for applying current trends in residential and commercial development. Mr. Gibbs has consulted with more than 300 town centers and historic cities across North America, the Pacific Rim, and the Caribbean. Gibbs is a pioneer and leader in the movement to revive the community-oriented principles of traditional town planning and smart growth. He views this approach as an antidote to the alienating, formless sprawl of suburbia. The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Consumer Reports have profiled his firm, Gibbs Planning Group. Before establishing the firm, Gibbs spent a dozen years as an advisor specializing in the "psychology of commerce," working with strip-center and shopping mall developers. Mr. Gibbs' current focus is on techniques that equip merchants on the street with the same competitive advantage as merchants located in the most profitable shopping centers.

Tickets: $10 in advance, $15 at the door, $5 students with ID. Tickets are available at Wegmans Food Markets and at Parkleigh on Park Avenue.

The lecture is an activity of "Reshaping Rochester! Planning for the Public Realm," a series of lectures and activities about revitalizing our community through good urban design. "Reshaping Rochester!" is developed by the non-profit Rochester Regional Community Design Center (RRCDC) and The American Institute of Architects - Rochester Chapter (AIA Rochester) and is sponsored by Preferred Care.

For More Information: 271-0520, astewart@rrcdc.org , www.rrcdc.org

Open Job Interviews in Brockport

Burns Personnel has asked to use our Village Hall conference room for a recruitment effort they are administering for CooperVision in Henrietta. The open interviews will take place from 2-3:30 on Thursday February 23rd. Below is the notice:

150 people will start at CooperVision’s new Distribution and Packaging Center in Henrietta by April of 2006-one of them could be you!


CooperVision, a global leader in contact lens design, and Burns Personnel are hiring:

-Inventory Control Clerks-- all 3 shifts, must have previous exp., physical job with some working at heights, pay to 9.67/hr

-Operators of high speed packaging equipment

-Order pickers in a very high tech environment



OPPORTUNITY TO PROGRESS, Temp to direct positions, great benefits.



Open Interviews this week at the Village Hall Conference Room 49 State St, Brockport, NY 14420

call 247-0280 or 385-6300 for more information.

Updates to Blog, Budget Workshop

Please be advised that the first Budget workshop will be held at the Village Hall, 49 State St on Wednesday February 14th, 2006 @ 7PM.

There is a change to the blog. Browsers of the site are now able to comment on any blog item without registering with Blogger. Please feel free to voice your comments on any item affecting the Village whether it be related a particular blog item or not.

PRESS RELEASE: Welcome Center- Project of the Year

The newly constructed Welcome Center and the restoration of Harvester Park on the Erie Canal in the Village of Brockport has won praise from residents, tourists and local dignitaries since its ribbon-cutting on April 30th, 2005. Now, the project has won designation as a Project of the Year.

The Awards Committee for the local branch of the American Public Works Association (APWA) recently informed the Village that the Harvester Park/Welcome Center project was selected as the 2005 recipient of the Project of the Year Award for Structural Projects under $2 million dollars. The award was presented to Mayor Mort Wexler and Superintendent Harry Donahue in a dinner ceremony on January 26th.

Donahue was elated at the recognition. “I knew we as a Department did a tremendous job in completing much of the in-kind labor at the project site,” he commented, “and I am pleased that my crew was recognized by APWA for our part in this project.”


APWA’s Project of the Year Award was established to promote excellence in the management and administration of public works projects by recognizing the alliance between the managing agency, the engineer, and contractors who together have led to a successful completion of a public works project.

Village Manager Ian M. Coyle highlighted the cooperation needed in such a complicated project. “Any time you have government contracts of this magnitude with multiple contractors and vendors, you need a strong collaborative team managing the direction of the project, and I think we had that in our Public Works Department and our engineers, Chatfield Engineers.”

Mayor Wexler was glad to see the entire team of engineers, contractors, and consultants recognized and stated, “I am particularly pleased with the acclaim bestowed on the Village’s Public Works Department for their role in the construction of this facility as this award formally acknowledges the hard work and dedication of Supt Donahue and his staff.”

Board Agenda: 02-06-06 Mtg

Agenda items slated for discussion on Monday include:

• Review of BPD 4th Quarter Report
• Appointment to Meter Reader position in the DPW
• Notice for Electing Officers
• Appointments to the Seymour Library Board and Village Advisory Committee
• Resolution to declare surplus the Village owned parcel on South Ave.
• Executive Session- pending litigation

FYI- Feb 21 2006 VB mtg is cancelled.