New market going up next to Dallas Farmers Market

by Teresa Gubbins

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Will there be food trucks? Of course there will.

DALLAS — A new special-event farmers market will go up next to the Dallas Farmers Market in November and December, in an effort to bring more attention to the Market.

Called Harwood Street Market, it's a trial venture between the Deep Ellum Outdoor Market and the Farmers Market Stakeholders Association. It'll be set up across the street from Shed 3, at 1015 South Harwood Street, with some vendors who've been at the Deep Ellum Market. Goods will include seasonal and holiday items, plants, flowers, and arts & crafts. Will there be food trucks? Of course there will, plus live music.

"There'll be a lot of businesses besides produce -- leather accessory maker Syd Justice Designs and Rockstar Bakeshop, they make gourmet whoopee pies," says organizer Brandon Castillo. "And then we have a couple of new ones for Harwood like Amigo’s Pottery."

Castillo is working with the Farmers Market Stakeholders Association, a group of business owners and property owners in the area.

"Our goal as a group is to revitalize that area of downtown," spokeswoman Tanya Ragan said.

A bond was passed in 2006 that allots $6 million to be spent on revitalizing and upgrading the market. Yet still, Shed #2 sits half-empty and little has changed.

"An investigation done three months ago determined that the money had never been spent," Ragan says. "It's crazy to think you have this money available to put into a facility that people believe in, and it isn't happening. The Harwood Market is a way for the Stakeholders to do something to show the city and market what a small group of people is capable of doing."

The Harwood Street Market will meet two times this year -- once in November and once in December, on a trial basis. If it proves successful, they'll continue in 2012.

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