Weekday Market in Eugene Weekly

Eugene Weekly, July 10, 2008
Volume XXVII, Number 28, page 11

MARKET INSIDE TANGO CENTER

A new initiative has been launched inside the Tango Center at 194 W. Broadway. It’s called The Weekday Market, and Tango Center director Greg Bryant describes it as “an 8,000 sq. ft. vendor market, service market, café, performance space, teaching/ workshop space, workspace-showcase space and local micro-entrepreneur networking space.”

The market will operate from 9 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday, and at night the space will continue to be used for dancing and other activities.

There’s not enough happening during the day on West Broadway,” says Bryant. “We’ve been telling people that vendors’ markets, such as Eugene’s Saturday Market, can resolve this problem. We could fill all the empty buildings downtown with local-product markets of different types.”

The historic building was Eugene’s indoor Public Market in the 1920s, and is currently owned by developers Connor & Woolley.

The new market already has “espresso and Wi-Fi and fascinating people,” says Bryant, and is looking for local vendors, service providers, performers, teachers and entrepreneurs. Go to the weekdaymarket.org website for information.