Downtown Tampa Fresh Market!
Whether you call them farmers’ markets or fresh markets, downtown markets are great gathering spots that attract a diverse collection of people into one location looking for fresh produce, cut flowers, homemade baked goods, organic products and more. The Tampa Bay area is blessed to have several markets in communities like Sarasota, St. Petersburg, Ybor City and Dunedin to name a few. Now it’s time to add downtown Tampa to the list.
In October the Tampa Downtown Partnership launched the Tampa Downtown Market. Open on Fridays from 10am to 2pm, the market is set for Lykes Gaslight Square using the Franklin Street quadrant for the initial launch. This location offers downtown workers easy access to the high quality vendors offering an array of specialty items.
Tiffany Ferrecchia will be running the weekly market. Ferrecchia is an accomplished organic caterer and executive chef who has been working the past several months on securing vendors, coordinating with the City of Tampa on details relating to site location and organizing special market events, such as arranging for WMNF 88.5 to provide music during the market hours.
The focus is simple… bring to downtown Tampa the best products and produce available in the region while at the same time creating an economic development tool to encourage more people to explore all the downtown has to offer.
The market hopes to serve as a community-gathering place where local farmers, producers, and artisans can offer fresh agricultural and related products to generate a sense of local pride and further the economic development of Downtown Tampa.
With a strong focus on sustainability, the Tampa Downtown Market intends to provide a vehicle to educate the community on the importance of good health as they create more business opportunities and residential benefits.
Long term goals include expanding the market to a second day – Sundays – in order to drive more downtown residents and people in the surrounding communities to downtown Tampa.
For more details about the Tampa Downtown Market make sure to log onto its Web site, www.tampadowntownmarket.com. There you will find a list of vendors, directions to the site and event details.
The Tampa Downtown Market is sponsored by the St. Petersburg Times, TBT Tampa Bay , WMNF 88.5, Trickey Jennus, the City of Tampa and the Tampa Downtown Partnership.
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