FREDONIA, N.Y. — This is the night people in Fredonia have been waiting for.
Friday night, show hosts from "Small Business Revolution" addressed community members in Fredonia after they won a national contest to host the reality TV program.
The announcement that Fredonia had been selected for Small Business Revolution by Deluxe came in late January, after thousands of nominations and a weeklong public vote.
Now the show hosts, Ty Pennington and Amanda Brinkman, are back in Western New York with big plans.
Seven Fredonia businesses were selected to be a part of the show.
"We’ve met with them. We’ve sat down with them. We’ve talked about their marketing needs, some operational hiccups they might be having and looked at their actual buildings and tried to determine physically what are we gonna be doing in this makeover." Brinkman said."It’s been really great to hear that the business owners' stories yet again and get to know them even better and really start to learn what their needs would be.”
"We’re starting to feel the charm of Fredonia.” Pennington said. “It’s impressive to see how you can start to feel like synergy working already.”
The show is expected to bring $500,000 worth of economic resources to the area.
From here, Pennington and Brinkman explained they'll be back and forth over the next few months filming and working with businesses.
To mark the kickoff, local leaders gathered community members for another celebration, including live music, a street festival and a pub crawl.
You'll be able to watch this season of Small Business Revolution on Hulu and other streaming services in September.