Downtown Canandaigua chockablock with galleries

STUART LOW • STAFF WRITER • OCTOBER 25, 2009

Little-known fact: Canandaigua is home to at least 10 year-round art galleries.

Question: How do so many thrive in a small Finger Lakes town?

Gallery owners say that mutual support and diverse areas of specialization make all the difference. Although seven of them are on South Main Street, they believe that their arts hub creates synergy rather than competition.

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Downtown Canandaigua

Canandaigua is fortunate to have a downtown with lots of restaurants, stores and parking.  The stores range from upscale boutiques to a chocolate store, to several music related stores and stores appealing to young people.  These include skateboard shop a snowboard shop, comics, trading cards. There also is the usual services such as insurance, barber, beauty salon and tatoo artist.

A truly neat place has a good mix of retail that is locally owned and run.  

AND in the summer we have a farmers market.

The Business Improvement District office (BID) plays a big part in keeping DT running.

Sounds like a nice place?  Wanna move here? Wanna start your small business here.  I can help make that happen, I'm a realtor.