[johnnyboy]

^ It's weekends only, but Bountiful seems to be doing well, given its location. We probably couldn't support a 7-day/week downtown venture yet, but maybe Wed-Fri evenings could work in addition to weekends? (Particularly if there were some decent food-service vendors involved. Bountiful has a few good ones on that front.)

 

[kcantor]

IMHO the Central Market and the Fairfax Market in Los Angeles are both better examples.

And many of the European markets are that much better. The Mercat de las Boqueria (La Rambla in Barcelona) as one example at 200 plus has more than five times as many vendors as LA’s central market and more than twice as many as Fairfax. It is also still predominantly a farmer’s market, not a collection of trendy food establishments, and is extremely well used daily by locals in lieu of grocery stores…

 

[David A]

Our Strathcona market does fairly well taking what is a well located old industrial building and repurposing it. This is sometimes done in other older cities, where they have more and larger such buildings.

I can't think of any such suitable existing buildings right in our downtown core, but I suppose we could build a new building of that style that could fit in somewhere in the warehouse district.

 

[kcantor]

Our Strathcona market does fairly well taking what is a well located old industrial building and repurposing it. This is sometimes done in other older cities, where they have more and larger such buildings.

I can't think of any such suitable existing buildings right in our downtown core, but I suppose we could build a new building of that style that could fit in somewhere in the warehouse district.

The Edmonton Iron Works Building might not be "right in our downtown core" but it's certainly close enough to the core and it's absolutely of the right style to facilitate a farmers market including adjacent land that could be utilized for anything from tents and temporary pavilions to sculpture and community gardens.

 

[Edmcowboy11]

I think the funny thing I've noticed between the farmers market here in North America and the farmers market in the Philippines, here it is a place where we can find vegetables, fruits and other foods at artisan prices where the hip, bougie and socially conscious go to get their wares and to enjoy the atmosphere. In the Philippines the farmers market or just market is where everyone goes to get their foods because that's where all the vendors with the cheapest and freshest foods will be. Farmers Markets here is a reminder of what our society used to be like at a premium price, where as the markets there are part of every day life.

 

[IanO]

Right! I've always found that odd too. That said, most of the time you are getting far superior veg/fruit/meat product for about the same as a traditional grocery, but it's not in expensive.