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'Discover Germantown' event brings crowds
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| Six-year-old Shannon Wingert of Elizaville gets a butterfly painted on her hand by Lion's Club member Bonnie Miller from Clermont during the Discover Germantown celebration held Sunday on Main Street in Germantown. Andrew Amelinckx/Hudson-Catskill Newspapers |
Pies consumed, businesses wooed
By Andrew Amelinckx
Hudson-Catskill Newspapers
GERMANTOWN — For the second year in a row Germantown held an event that both celebrates this small town in southern Columbia County and spotlights some of the potential business opportunities available to those who might want to one day become part of the town’s fabric.
“We’re trying to highlight the business opportunities for some of our vacant storefronts,” said Town Supervisor Roy Brown.
One of those properties is the Central House, an old hotel and bar built in the 1830s.
“This was the meeting place,” said Michael Lueck, who has remodeled the Central House from top to bottom with brothers Stephan and Martin.
The space is designed as an inn on the second floor and has kept some period details, while a restaurant or other business venture could fill the first floor.
They are hoping to lease or sell the property.
“We’re waiting for the right person to come in,” he said.
Lueck believes the property could be a great business opportunity for someone and could also benefit the town.
“It would be a big bonus for them,” he said of the town.
According to Lueck, the event was going well.
“There seems to be a lot of interest in it,” he said.
The day featured a apple festival with an apple pie judging competition, face painting and a booth set up by the local Lions Club selling a variety of apple related treats.
There were also a number of local restaurants, caterers and even a private culinary service offering the public free samples of their fare.
Main Street was full of people and foot traffic flowed in and out of Otto’s Market and the Central House.
According to Brown, Corinne Curry of the Germantown Economic Development Committee, has “led the charge” in bringing attention to the town.
The event was sponsored by the committee along with the Lions Club and the library, which held a book sale.
Artspace, which is also sponsored by the committee, was open for the event. The current show features the book illustrations and collages of the Crews Family — Donald, his wife, Ann Jonas Crews, and their daughter Nina Crews.
The show runs through Nov. 1.
Located on the corner of Main and Maple Streets, the building is owned by Hal and Valery Einhorn, who are both architects living in Rhinebeck.
The building is lent to the committee to use as an art space while it remains vacant.
It’s open Fridays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Crews and his wife have lived in Germantown for the last 15 years, having moved there from Brooklyn.
When asked how they ended up there he answered that it was “serendipity.”
Crews has been illustrating books for the last 30 years.
He and his wife came out to the festival since, he said, they don’t happen all that often.
“I’ve never seen this many people in Germantown before,” he said, then reconsidered. “Well maybe once or twice.”
To reach reporter Andrew Amelinckx call 518-828-1616, ext. 2267 or e-mail aamelinckx@registerstar.com
“We’re trying to highlight the business opportunities for some of our vacant storefronts,” said Town Supervisor Roy Brown.
One of those properties is the Central House, an old hotel and bar built in the 1830s.
“This was the meeting place,” said Michael Lueck, who has remodeled the Central House from top to bottom with brothers Stephan and Martin.
The space is designed as an inn on the second floor and has kept some period details, while a restaurant or other business venture could fill the first floor.
They are hoping to lease or sell the property.
“We’re waiting for the right person to come in,” he said.
Lueck believes the property could be a great business opportunity for someone and could also benefit the town.
“It would be a big bonus for them,” he said of the town.
According to Lueck, the event was going well.
“There seems to be a lot of interest in it,” he said.
The day featured a apple festival with an apple pie judging competition, face painting and a booth set up by the local Lions Club selling a variety of apple related treats.
There were also a number of local restaurants, caterers and even a private culinary service offering the public free samples of their fare.
Main Street was full of people and foot traffic flowed in and out of Otto’s Market and the Central House.
According to Brown, Corinne Curry of the Germantown Economic Development Committee, has “led the charge” in bringing attention to the town.
The event was sponsored by the committee along with the Lions Club and the library, which held a book sale.
Artspace, which is also sponsored by the committee, was open for the event. The current show features the book illustrations and collages of the Crews Family — Donald, his wife, Ann Jonas Crews, and their daughter Nina Crews.
The show runs through Nov. 1.
Located on the corner of Main and Maple Streets, the building is owned by Hal and Valery Einhorn, who are both architects living in Rhinebeck.
The building is lent to the committee to use as an art space while it remains vacant.
It’s open Fridays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Crews and his wife have lived in Germantown for the last 15 years, having moved there from Brooklyn.
When asked how they ended up there he answered that it was “serendipity.”
Crews has been illustrating books for the last 30 years.
He and his wife came out to the festival since, he said, they don’t happen all that often.
“I’ve never seen this many people in Germantown before,” he said, then reconsidered. “Well maybe once or twice.”
To reach reporter Andrew Amelinckx call 518-828-1616, ext. 2267 or e-mail aamelinckx@registerstar.com
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