Market Hall Invitation
— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 26 April 2010 — 1 comment below »
We are all cordially invited to Market Hall’s opening day this Saturday, May 1…
My only question concerns the scheduled 3:30pm event where patrons will apparently witness the relocation of the Hercules Certified Farmers Market. Hopefully it is not much more than a shifting of a few tables and chairs.
Market Hall’s “What’s Cooking” calendar has not been updated to list what vendors will be available on opening day or beyond.
The Farmers Market has its own website, but the calendar has not been updated since 2008. The official flier for this year’s farmers market is available on the city’s website.
UPDATE — Market Hall has clarified the “relocation” event.
Thank goodness Market Hall is located on a “temporary site”. Chalk this project up as yet another debacle for the City of Hercules. The traffic at Sycamore Avenue was a total mess this weekend thanks to Market Hall. Not only did it choke up the very limited access to our already poorly planned City, it badly hurt our local tax paying businesses. I spoke with a manager of a shop located across the street (behind the Shell station) and they confirmed losing major business on Saturday because their customers were unable to access their stores due to Market Hall patrons filling their parking lots.
Market Hall boasts of providing more dinner options for Hercules restaurants. I agree that we need more dinner options – but we need real restaurants, not carnival food. While I fully support free enterprise, I do not support robbing our existing tax paying businesses so that we can take our families out for “Kettle Korn.”
Fortunately they say Market Hall is just “temporary.” So we’ll have to put up with this until it’s re-located to its permanent home. Sorta like how we’ve been waiting an entire decade for the Waterfront to be developed as promised. . . and it’s still a pile of dirt.
In other words – don’t hold your breath.