Bob's Pool and Garden move to a new location

Bob’s Pool and Garden sold Christmas trees this holiday season, but this is the last year it is going to be doing this at the location on Union Street. They moved their stand in front of the new building at the corner of Gillette Rd. and Route 31. They’re closed for the winter, but plan on opening up at this new location in the Spring. Bob’s Pool and Garden has been in business for thirty-three years. In the summer time, they’re known for selling flowers.

Up the street from Bob’s Pool and Garden, there’s a new store opening up soon next to Pontillo’s Pizzeria called Retro-Traders. It’s a store that sells used goods, but it’s not a thrift store like the Estate Marketplace and it’s not a discount store like Xtreme Discount Goods. It’s been described as being like an Ebay, but it’s a store that you can go into where you can buy, sell, and trade used goods. Like the sign says above the door to this store, you can buy, sell, or trade video games, electronics, tools, jewelry, and much more.

In the southeast of Ogden, a shipping building for Amazon is being constructed. The outer walls and top of the building have been built, but the inside needs to be completed. Acquest Development is putting up the building and they have a lot of experience with large projects. Their main office is in Williamsville, New York.

More construction is going to be taking place across the street from Barefoot Landing. They are planning on building eighty-four townhouses which will provide a wall of housing on the east side of N. Union Street along the corridor leading to the village. Besides this new development, not much was done in December to build the three-story building next to Grandpa Sam’s, but this project will be a big addition to the village when it is completed. With this and the townhouses and the Amazon building, a lot of construction will be going on in Spencerport.

This team at Grim Digital Media are Spencerport Alumni

Gene Smith and Matt Gebhardt are partners at Grim Digital Media. They design and build websites, produce videos and do photography. They started a Flower City Collective that includes other creative professionals that share space with them and they also have two large studios for themselves and creative professionals to rent. Matt says that they’ve kind of evolved into a production house which started in the beginning of 2020 when they moved into the six thousand square foot space that is in the Neighborhood of the Arts. Before that, they worked in a small space in the Park Ave. area. That’s where they started Grim Digital Media in 2015.

Gene and Matt graduated from Spencerport High School in 1991. Gene enjoyed his experience when he was class president and Matt just enjoyed high school in general, playing soccer and hanging out with great friends. Gene lived just outside of Parma in Greece, but always went to the Spencerport schools. “I spent countless days in and around the village of Spencerport,” Gene said. He remembers making terrible movies with friends, but it was something fun to do. He also took photographs during Culture Days. “Culture Day was a day where my friends and I would find a place that we had never been, go there and explore that place. I would take photographs of the experience,” Gene said. “You could say that is when I found my passion for photography and film making.”

Matt has fond memories of growing up in Spencerport too. “No internet, social media, school shootings or pandemics…it felt like a completely safe environment to be a kid,” Matt said. He remembers shopping with his family at Bells when he was little, which is now Tops, and also shopping at Ben Franklin for matchbox cars. Ben Franklin was where the Dollar Tree is now. Although Gene and Matt no longer live in Spencerport, they still like to visit. Gene likes going to the Texas BBQ to have a cowboy baked potatoe and Matt loves going to the Brindle Haus. Matt’s Mom still lives in Spencerport, so he makes it out to the village to see her every now and then.

More new businesses come to Spencerport

Clutch on the Canal opened in Spencerport at the end of September. They have another location in Greece. Now Art Affliction Tattoo has moved into Spencerport from their Greece location. They have yet to renovate the space in the heart of the village on Union Street, but they put their name on the window at the end of October. It’s exciting for Spencerport to see how quickly a new tenant has moved into the Masonic Temple building. Before Affliction Tattoo, it was Bare Salon Spa, which closed the first week of October, so it only took three weeks to fill the space with Art Affliction Tattoo.

The space right near Art Affliction Tattoo has not been so lucky. This space has been empty since January of 2020. It used to be Bauer’s Boutique, but they moved three spaces down to a smaller location and now they are moving again! Bauer’s Boutique is moving to Gates on November 26th which means there will be two spaces available to rent in the Masonic Temple building.

Another business that is moving to a new location is Bob’s Pool and Garden. While Bauer’s Boutique decided to move out of Spencerport, Bob’s Pool and Garden is staying nearby where they built a new building on the corner of Gillette Rd. and Route 31. Back on Union Street, there’s a good chance that Brindle Haus expands their brewery into the space that is occupied by Bob’s Pool and Garden.

There’s another space that’s being renovated at Parma Place on Ridge Road. American Computer Services is moving into this plaza and they will be fixing everything like video games and phones and computers. Yoga With Integrity moved into Spencer’s Landing in October and they now have classes in their studio on the second floor above Hunt Real Estate. Next to Spencer’s Landing at Mccolley’s, the restaurant added a room with more than thirty seats.

Overall, there continues to be a lot going on in this suburb of Rochester. There’s brand new businesses renovating spaces around Spencerport, there’s old businesses moving to new locations, and a new business that is up and running. The construction at 148 South Union Street next to Grandpa Sam’s is coming along too. They are currently working on the basement.