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New Public Market Envisioned in Tucson, AZ

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 27, 2006 | Add Comment

PPS is assiting with the development of a new public market that will feature 48 vendors in an open-air shed, and is helping to ensure that the market represents the community that is 79% hispanic.

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Farmers Markets Add Spice to Urban Tables

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 22, 2006 | Add Comment

Not only do farmers markets provide fresh local produce to customers who are increasingly savvy concerning what they eat, they also provide a community gather place to neighborhoods. This article discusses the current issues as well as the history of farmers markets.

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Project for Public Spaces Announces Winners of Eleven Grants to Develop Farmers Market State/Regional Associations Throughout North America

By jday@pps.org on Jun 1, 2006 | 2 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact – Chris Heitmann or Shin-pei Tsay, Project for Public Spaces 212-620-5660

May 30, 2006

Grants totaling $900,000 will increase the capacity of farmers markets to expand and enhance their operations

NEW YORK, NY – Eleven state and regional associations founded to advance farmers markets will capitalize on the massive growth [...]

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Street Markets ‘More Powerful Than Supermarkets’

By ksalay@pps.org on May 31, 2006 | Add Comment

“Local street markets generate twice as many jobs as big supermarkets and sell goods at half the price of the supposedly cut-price retail giants, research shows.

Planning decisions that favour the building of huge outlets over established smaller markets could result in fewer jobs and less choice for local communities, a report by the think-tank [...]

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Vendors Fear Nashville Farmers Market May Cut Roots

By ksalay@pps.org on May 30, 2006 | Add Comment

The Nashville Farmers Market’s new director says the market has to change to survive, but some merchants think he just wants to see them and their low-income customers go away.

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PPS Travels to the Republic of Georgia

By ksalay@pps.org on May 26, 2006 | Add Comment

Phil Myrick and David O’Neil returned to the Republic of Georgia to work on market projects in two small towns, Akhaltsikhe and Ninotsminda.

Phil and David assisted community members in Ninotsminda with creating a new central market. The site of the new market is now empty, but the market is planned to [...]

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The Dosa Man’s New Grill

By ksalay@pps.org on May 26, 2006 | 3 Comments

PPS’s favorite street vendor, the Dosa Man of Washington Square Park (a.k.a. Kumar) shows off his new grill.  In the program of the Vendy Awards last fall, Kumar said he wanted to get a new grill with more space, so that his customers don’t have to wait in such a long line. Now able [...]

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Farmers’ Markets Go Beyond Green

By ksalay@pps.org on May 24, 2006 | Add Comment

Next month, two outdoor food markets will open in Lower Manhattan. Every Saturday, these “hybrid” markets, like weekly markets in Europe, will offer more diverse products than a strictly defined farmers’ market. With local makers of guacamole and sorbet selling alongside organic farmers, Nina Planck, former director of the New York City Greenmarkets, is striking [...]

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Fayetteville Market (AR) Reaches Out to Hispanic Community

By stsay@pps.org on May 23, 2006 | 2 Comments

“We want our market to be for everyone in the community,” says Janet Bachman, a market vendor.

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Profile from South Side Farmers’ Market, Madison, WI

By stsay@pps.org on May 19, 2006 | 1 Comment

Who is Robert Pierce, manager of the South Side Farmers’ Market, one of PPS’s public markets grantees?

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Farmers Market Offers Valet Parking for Bikes

By ksalay@pps.org on May 17, 2006 | Add Comment

In an effort to get folks out of their cars and onto their bikes, city officials and cycling clubs are sponsoring a bike valet for the Farmer’s Market in San Luis Obispo, CA.

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Markets Important to Local Economies

By ksalay@pps.org on May 15, 2006 | Add Comment

Roberta Brandes Gratz, urban critic and PPS board member, comments on the economic importance of flea markets:

“Flea markets are a hands-on eBay,” says Gratz. “They’re important to our economy, even though they probably don’t show up anywhere. They’re a very useful form of recycling and a necessary source of affordably priced stuff.”

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