The city of Detroit is poised to turn over control of the 115-year-old
open-air market to a public-private group that vows to invest $30
million in renovations and lure a new wave of private development to
the surrounding neighborhood.
According to the story:
The nonprofit group, to be called Eastern Market Corp., wants to
attract crowds to the area seven days a week all year by using the same
formula that now draws tens of thousands of people to Eastern Market on
Saturdays during warm weather.
The corporation plans to tout the products of local farmers and
specialty food retailers and create a scene that will attract everyone
from working-class immigrants to well-heeled suburbanites and young
hipsters, much as Flower Day at the market, coming May 21, does every
year.
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