The Class of ’63 will have its reunion July 19 through 21. “I want to have some kind of decor in every window on Main Street before July.”
“This is really a win-win because we are filling the stores and helping local businesses market themselves,” Ferrara-Flanger said. She said the paint used to touch up the stores was donated by Kingsboro Lumber Co. “Everybody came to clean and set up their own windows,” Ferrara-Flanger said. The storefronts were painted by the president of the Class of 1963, Tom Thomson, but each interior window display had to be cleaned and decorated by the business using it, Ferrara said. In addition to Ferrara-Flanger’s Sessions Hair and Day Spa, businesses that took advantage of the opportunity include TaylorMade, Kingsboro Golf Club, Chef Lomanto’s Kitchen, Chapeau de Valse, Ruby and Quiri and others. “I called the owner and told him what we were doing, and he loved the idea,” Teetz said. The owner of Glove City Realty, Teetz manages several properties along South Main Street for Two Great Guys and said he contacted the owner to see if he was interested in supplying one window for the class of ’63 but it quickly expanded into a monumental effort to fill every vacant window. She sent a brochure from the Business Improvement District that shows the city beautifully displayed, but she feared when her classmates return they are going to ask what happened to the Four Corners, where many of the retail buildings are vacant.īeing the business person she is, Ferrara-Flanger proposed Teetz fill the vacant storefronts with local businesses’ merchandise. Judy Ferrara-Flanger and other members of the community plan to work for the next several months to dress up vacant storefronts, allowing local merchants to use window displays to both advertise their businesses and improve Main Street’s curb appeal.įerrara-Flanger said she became involved with the endeavor while organizing the 50-year reunion of the Gloversville High School Class of 1963, which will take place in July.įerrara-Flanger said she called Mike Teetz of Glove City Realty and told him she had a group of people coming back to Gloversville for the reunion.
MARKETING PLAN RUBY AND QUIRI WINDOWS
He also has minors in Spanish and history.GLOVERSVILLE – Volunteers and businesses are working together to liven up the city’s Four Corners intersection with a fresh coat of paint and decorated display windows that will serve as portals to a past when Main Street was packed with a variety of vendors and merchants. Immediately prior to joining the S peech Technology staff in November 2006, he served as managing editor at Food Logistics magazine, covering the warehousing and transportation of food and related products in the retail supermarket and foodservice industry.Īn award-winning writer and editor, Len is a graduate of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he earned a bachelor's degree in communications, with a concentration in journalism. military and government entities, and at college campuses around the country. He has served as the managing editor at publications covering foodservice and recreational activities for U.S.
Various reporting, photography, and editing roles at several weekly newspapers in the New York metropolitan area preceded his switch to trade publishing. Len got his start in journalism 25 years ago. He writes at least one feature and case study and compiles the Insight section in each issue of CRM and contributes to daily news coverage and blog postings on the Web site. Len is responsible for assigning and editing content for CRM and its related Web sites, eNewsletters, and other properties, as well as the Web site.
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