gemgram wrote:
Part of the problem is the "Farmers Market" designation. Farmer's MarketsWM: I come from a different area of the country and this is not my notion of a farmer's market at all. We went to the market once a week.
were supposed to be open areas where farmers and others would bring their
own products and produce, and then sell it in a non-store venue.
The Karmel Plaza and the Karmel Square are no more "Farmers Markets" than Southdale is, Ridgedale is, or Mall of America is. Individual businesses, with specific discreet space, rented under normal leases, with walls and locks on doors do NOT constitute a farmers market.
WM: Oh, but they do--in Cairo, in Cincinnati, in Mexico.
Hardly a reason to call them 'FarmersWM: Where these folks come from, the market may also house the coppersmiths and other foundry operations. Market, in many places means place where goods are bought and sold, including horses, camels, sheep, even ducks on the webbed foot.
Markets'. These fine, industrious, ambitious, business people are
storeowners, NOT farmers!
Calling such 'Malls' Farmer's Markets is another example of "Bait & Switch"WM: It may not at all be bait and switch, it could be different understandings of what market means. Too, from the viewpoint of the zoning department, farmer's market may be the closest designation they have to what the developer describes.
on the part of the developers.
I wonder when Uptown at Hennepin-Lake or the E-block will ask to be declared a "Farmer's Market"? They might have a fine minority owned business like "Famous Dave's", and as such claim to be ducks.WM: The Nicollet Mall is declared a farmer's market every Thursday in the summer. No doubt Famous Dave could have a stand at the Thursday market if he so chose.
WizardMarks, Central
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