It’s a happy Thanksgiving week for the Broadway farmers market — it won’t need to find a new home for at least another year. This e-mail popped into the CHS inbox today:
We received good news today from Andy Loos at SRM Development. Andy says the Farmers Market will be able to stay at its current location through December of 2010.
Dates for 2010 are Sunday, May 9 through Sunday, December 19. Hours are the same; 11 am – 3 pm.
Please help us spread the good news!
Happy Thanksgiving,
ChrisChris Curtis, Director
Market’s here 11 -3 , every Sunday through Dec. 20th. Says so right there! (Photo: Andrew Taylor)
With plans for the development that will eventually replace it and blocks of retail taking shape, the Broadway farmers market has been looking for a temporary new home. The future is for the market to be part of the development going in around the Capitol Hill light rail station when it is completed in 2016. In the meantime, the market won’t be on the move until 2011.
Meanwhile, Andrew points out the light crowd last weekend and encourages you to head out — rain or, um, less rain — for some market grocery shopping next Sunday.
All nice, all good.
I buy soap there. And bread. And cheese.
Veggies are better at QFC.
Farmer grown is funny, wonder where people think all of our food comes from? Thank god for the farmers. They feed the world.
Course, few can afford the $6.00 tomato.
But, three cheers for what ever the gullible will pay.
Wasn’t construction on the new development supposed to start next year? I’ve been told by a Septieme employee that they’re closing in the Spring of 2010.
Agree that’s a very good question. We’ll see if we can get any kind of satisfying answer.
(dream law: construction must being within 90 days of shutting down displaced businesses)
Theory – they, the Farmer Mk. are on the back side of the property – parking lot, so empty -and there is another year of planning and even demolition on Bwy. side that does not impeded the use of that portion of the site.
Nice gesture from the developer. Feather in their cap for good community relations.
Such a law would not stand any court test. Title means you own it and get to do mostly as you wish … bitching neighbors is not a compelling reason to take away property rights from anybody.
Neither is the idea of what you should do with your property from outsiders reason to take rights.
uh, many cities have FAR stricter building codes than Seattle about what, when and how you build on your property…developers can (sadly) do just about anything to effectively rape the shit out of the liveability of a neighborhood. Want proof? Just drive around any neighborhood in Seattle.