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Could a new public market survive downtown?

Success of the James Beard Public Market is less than a certainty

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Fred Leeson
Aug 25, 2025
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The proposed site for the James Beard Public Market.

Plans are certainly aggressive for a James Beard Public Market that would contain a restaurant, numerous fresh food stalls, a bookstore, cooking classes and an event space in the 600 block of Southwest Alder Street.

The proposed market would use the ground floor of the Selling Building at the corner of …

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