More than four years after moving to an indoor location, the downtown Edmonton farmers’ market is returning to its old stomping grounds outdoors, along 104th Street. “This particular location, as we saw in those days when it just grew and grew..
. It just is the perfect street for it,” said Puneeta McBryan, executive director of the Edmonton Downtown Business Association (EDBA). “The beautiful historic buildings that we still have on 104th Street, the nice big sidewalks, having lots of retail businesses and cafes and restaurants facing right onto the street.
“Plus, you’ve got this really high density of residents — thousands and thousands of people living in the towers all around the street — so it really is sort of this perfect mix of what you need to have a vibrant market on the weekend.” The first market is Saturday, June 15 from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. It will run every Saturday until Oct.
12. Story continues below advertisement 5:58 Downtown Business Association excited for return of outdoor 104 Street farmers market Before moving to an indoor venue in 2019, the downtown farmers’ market had years of success at this outdoor 104th Street location. It moved to the historic 113-year-old Army & Navy building on 103rd Avenue and 97th Street in 2019 so it could operate year-round.
But the costs of maintaining a large building plus the pandemic, made the change difficult to manage. The number of shoppers dropped as did the number of vendors — from 250 to 60. In Ja.