C. 4 Guidelines For Creating A Great Public Market

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4 GUIDELINES ON TAKING PUBLIC

MARKETS TO THE NEXT LEVEL
KELLY VEREL
APR 27, 2011

PUBLIC MARKETSFOOD ACCESSPLACE MANAGEMENT
4 GUIDELINES FOR CREATING A GREAT PUBLIC MARKET
1. CREATING A GREAT FARMERS MARKET IS ABOUT CREATING A

GREAT PUBLIC SPACE
The only way your market will be truly successful is if it’s a great public space. When
we surveyed customers about why they love markets, the number one reason was
because they brought people together.
People love food, people value contributing to their local economy- but more than
anything, people love being near other people. So if you're a market manager, what
can you do to foster that?
Making places where people like to hang out with each other will directly benefit in
dollars.
2. PUBLIC MARKETS MUST HAVE PUBLIC GOALS:

A public market can come in many shapes and sizes including a craft market, art
market, flea market, farmers market, indoor market. But to be considered
a public market, the market must:
Have public goals: how does this place contribute to the community?Operate in public
spaces- it can be privately owned but customers should not pay to get inServe locally
owned and operated businesses The best public markets confer a number of great
public benefits. Research from the Ford Foundation shows public markets confer
multiple benefits to the communities they serve.
Public Markets:
 bring together diverse people

 create active public spaces
 link urban and rural economies
 promote public health
 provide economic opportunity for vendors
 catalyze the renewal downtowns and neighborhoods
3. MARKETS HAVE TO EVOLVE.

You can’t just create a Pike Place overnight. It took 100 years for the market to get to
what it is today: a thriving market district. Markets emerge from a series of incremental
additions- often through many lighter, quicker, cheaper projects.
There are many kinds of Public Markets:
 Open Air Markets- temporary, operating one or a few times a week

 Covered Markets- sheds or flexible indoor space, including winter markets- a
trend that is growing in the northeast
 Market Hall- indoor building with permanent stalls for vendors
 Market districts - multi acre hubs of market-related activity including a indoor
market, mix of wholesale and retail usually- usually lots of food related businesses,
such as restaurants
4. HEALTHY FOOD HUBS: THE BEST MARKETS ARE AT THE HEART OF

A COMMUNITY
When you start thinking holistically about markets as great community places- and not
merely as outlets for produce- it’s easy to see how markets can become the heart of a
neighborhood. The busiest, most successful markets are places where people want to
spend time together.
But they can be more than fun: by strategically clustering public services and activities,
markets can actually contribute to community health.
Markets that cluster fresh food and health services in an environment where people
want to come together to spend time are Healthy Food Hubs.
Healthy Food Hubs offer many benefits, especially in lower-income or disenfranchised

communities without grocery stores where there is little or no access to fresh food.
Healthy Food Hubs are markets where you might also find cooking demonstrations,
health information, a shared-use commercial kitchen, job training, health care,
community space, community gardens, and a restaurant or cafe, etc.
Healthy Food Hubs were the cornerstone of a concept PPS put together for our work
in Birmingham, Alabama.
PPS Can Help Make Your Market Great PPS offers many services to reinvent or start
a public market. PPS’ markets team can help with:
Planning and Design: PPS prepares feasibility and implementation plansEducation and
Training:Bi-annual Training Courses in New York City on how to create successful
markets. The next on will occur on May 20-21.Customized trainings for your market’s
unique contextInternational Public Markets Conferences. The next one will be
in Cleveland in 2012

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4 GUIDELINES ON TAKING PUBLIC

APR 27, 2011

4 GUIDELINES FOR CREATING A GREAT PUBLIC MARKET

1. CREATING A GREAT FARMERS MARKET IS ABOUT CREATING A

2. PUBLIC MARKETS MUST HAVE PUBLIC GOALS:

 bring together diverse people

3. MARKETS HAVE TO EVOLVE.

 Open Air Markets- temporary, operating one or a few times a week

4. HEALTHY FOOD HUBS: THE BEST MARKETS ARE AT THE HEART OF

Healthy Food Hubs offer many benefits, especially in lower-income or disenfranchised

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