3.3.5
Original Document
The same applies to Birmingham’s markets. Developing a street market or markets within the fringe or transitional areas around the city core will greatly help to enliven the city streets. As with specialist retailing, different markets can specialise in different ranges of produce, from ethnic foods to antiques. There is huge scope for more edgy, fringe, ethnic, music or student related markets or specialist retailers reflecting Birmingham’s youthfulness and diversity.
Plain English Translation
Developing a street market or markets around the edges of the City Centre could make the areas we’re redeveloping more lively.
Different markets could specialise in different ranges of produce, from ethnic foods to antiques. There is an opportunity for more edgy, fringe, ethnic, music or student related markets or specialist retailers that would be popular with Birmingham’s young and diverse people.
Why develop a market on the edge of the city? The annual Frankfurt market proves that having a “quality” market brings people into the town centre, to the benefit of other shops, bars and restaurants. Why dont we make more use of the streetmarket concept all year round?
A number of Jewellery Quarter residents (with support from the Jewellery Quarter Neighbourhood Forum) have been meeting to discuss the potential for a farmers market (in the broadest sense) for the Jewellery Quarter. We are still in the process of getting information, etc., and one of the most important things to determine is whether it is feasible i.e. do other people in the Jewellery Quarter like the idea. We are thinking about this taking place on a Saturday, maybe monthly maybe bi-monthly, and we have been talking with the highly successful Moseley Farmers market too. We very much see any farmers market in the JQ as having it's own identity. Follow link http://www.doodle.com/dkx3buym44bv3et2 to register your opinion about a potential JQ Farmers Market.