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Writer's pictureDan Bauman

When I drove to the Estate Marketplace, there were cars parked along Route 104, but I wanted to park behind the building. When I got back there, it looked full until I drove all the way to the end and there was one spot left in front of a fallen tree. I parked the car and then made the long walk to the front of the building where the Flea Market was being held.


The first outdoor vendor was all antiques, but I as continued looking further along, some other vendors had miscellaneous stuff besides antiques. I considered buying a coffee mug at one stop, but all of the cups were pretty small. Toward the end of the row of vendors, I came upon a couple who were selling funky clothes and a few odds and ends. I picked up a baseball cap that said Polaroid on it and the girl said it cost eight dollars. I couldn’t decide whether or not I wanted to buy it and then the girl said that she would sell it to me for five dollars. I gave her the money and the guy said that I was their first sale.


I walked around a little more and stopped to check out two puppies that were up for adoption and then I walked over to a hot dog stand and ordered an Italian sausage with peppers and onions. There was nowhere to sit, so I decided to leave the Flea Market and eat the food in my car. While eating in the car, I noticed someone waiting for me to leave as there was no spots left behind the building. I only got a couple bites in before I placed my sausage on the passenger seat and left the Estate Marketplace.


The sky is the limit for Spencerport. We’re doing our best with putting up a three-story building in the heart of the village. The question is: Could we have built four stories? Across the street from the construction is the Masonic Temple building which is three stories tall. The Village Square is behind the Masonic Temple building and that is also three stories tall. That is the tallest that the Village of Spencerport has to offer. This was our shot to grow to four stories with basically the last piece of empty space in the village to build. It could’ve shown that Spencerport means business and that we are a world class village, vibrant and standing tall. There was a chance though, that a four-story building would’ve been too odd looking and wouldn’t have fit in with the rest of the village and that a three-story building is actually perfect for Spencerport. I guess we shall go with that.














Right in the central business district of Spencerport, Fuse Creative has a space where they do graphics, design logos and do business marketing. They also do vehicle wraps, signage, and according to its founder Domenico Colaprete, they do “anything pretty much art related”. Dom started the company in June of 2017 and a few years later Harry Sotomayor came on board as a partner. Fuse Creative has been at its current location on South Union Street since January of 2020. They have big clients such as Christa Construction and then they have smaller clients such as the sports bar Clutch on the Canal in Spencerport. They did all the graphics and signage for the new sports bar.


Their work space is located very close to where the old railroad bridge used to be on Union Street. At the time when that bridge got torn down in 2013, Dom was working for Skooba Design in Rochester and Harry was growing up in Rhode Island. While Harry is from another state, Dom grew up in Spencerport. He has fond memories of going to the Spencerport carnival with family and friends when he was a kid. Although Dom and Harry don’t live in Spencerport now, they are very invested in the community, having a space in the village and working with Spencerport businesses.


“One interesting thing about Rhode Island that they don't do here in New York is drink coffee milk. I'm sure most New Yorkers reading this are asking themselves "what is coffee milk?". The best way I can describe it is that it's the same as when you mix milk and chocolate syrup to make chocolate milk. In Rhode Island we have coffee syrup. It's a very normal thing to drink there but extremely uncommon everywhere else,” Harry says.

 

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