The Weekday Market

in downtown Eugene

Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm, in The Tango Center, at 194 West Broadway, Eugene, Oregon

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The Weekday Market

A daily, 9am - 5pm, local indoor vendors' market in downtown Eugene.

Launching June 30, 2008
"Preview Week"

We're interested in local products and services, and related instruction. We're also interested in performers who want to do short demos of their productions. Write to us at the address below.

Its hub will be the Tango Center building, which was built in 1929 for the daily Eugene Public Producers' Market.

The intention is to create a flexible local vendor system, which can expand to fill any number of empty spaces downtown, and incubate micro-enterprises, for locally-driven economic development.

Motivation

1) West Broadway revitalization: everyone agrees that not enough happens on West Broadway during the weekday. So, we address this deficit directly.

2) Local economic development: there's also no downtown gathering place for entrepreneurs: local proto-micro-enterprises, new sustainable businesses, and new social initiatives. We want to provide a meeting place, programmed activity, market space, and workshop space, all geared towards facilitating locally-driven economic activity. We call this part of the market "The Bootstrap Cafe".

Tentative Market space and themes

Local apparel & accessories
Farmers' Market
Secondary food products, local kitchen & garden goods
Local Appropriate Technology: "The Makers' Faire"

... other suggestions? We'll cluster people as they sign up.

Vendors!

We're interested in any vendor, who either produces anything locally, or provides any service locally. Please write us a very brief proposal for a booth at The Weekday Market:



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Weekday Market in Register-Guard

The first mention of The Weekly Market in our local daily, was Friday, June 27, 2008:
Right next door to the glass show, at the Tango Center at 194 W. Broadway, executive director Greg Bryant is still busy encouraging local vendors and artisans to take part in something he’s calling the Weekday Market. It’s expected to open Monday or Tuesday and run through Friday, Br…
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Posted by Greg Bryant on June 29th, 2008 at 1:05pm — No Comments (Add)

Vendors: the value proposition

The Weekday Market Monday through Friday, 9am - 5pm. How much? Daily, $10 + 10%. What do we offer the public? 1. The Bootstrap Cafe -- food and drink. 2. Theme days and clusters of vendors 3. Instruction: classes and workshops by vendors 4. A practice dance floor 5. Short dance, theatre or music performances every hour 6. The downtown exchange: project announcements at noon 7. Ambient live music 8. Bulletin boards for all the interest groups that have meetings in the cafe.… Continue

Posted by Greg Bryant on June 17th, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Announcement

From the Market Corner section of the Saturday Market newsletter: A new indoor market for local products and services is opening, during the weekdays on West Broadway. It’s called The Weekday Market, at 194 West Broadway, Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm, in the same large space that hosts social dances in the evenings: The Tango Center. This building was built for Eugene’s daily market, back in 1929. They have room for approximately 25 booths each day, and will organize the days by themes, based… Continue

Posted by Greg Bryant on June 15th, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Saturday Market Newsletter

Our friends at Saturday Market announced the Weekday Market in their fascinating Weekly Newsletter, on the Saturday Market website. The Saturday Market, the pioneer of the revival of the saturday market concept in the US in 1970, is a continuous inspiration to everyone in Eugene, and is at the heart of our… Continue

Posted by Greg Bryant on June 15th, 2008 at 4:04pm — No Comments (Add)

 
 

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