In only a years time, Regina’s beloved Farmer’s Market will probably be in want of a brand new residence.

Starting in 2024, highway development in downtown Regina will push the market from its traditional residence on Pat Fiacco Plaza for an estimated three years.

The market has been held there for practically 50 years.

The development will happen on 11^th avenue, that can see the highway fully dug up from Broad Avenue to Albert Avenue, which means the one entry to Cornwall Avenue will probably be from the Pat Fiacco Plaza.

Holly Laird, the manager director of the Regina Farmers Market, mentioned the information has been troublesome to interrupt to its distributors.

“I imply they’re not thrilled about it clearly of us don’t essentially love change on a regular basis and it’s a giant one proper,” Laird mentioned when describing the sensation from distributors. “We’ve over 100 distributors who run their companies by the Regina Farmers Market, and it makes up a big a part of their incomes.”

A type of distributors is Ponziamo Aluma, who has had his spring roll enterprise at the marketplace for roughly 5 years. He’s fearful the change in location received’t present the identical expertise as being on the Plaza.

“The (Plaza) the place it has been is ideal you understand?” Aluma defined “It’s a public place with quite a lot of parking and it is vitally central. No person’s going to have the ability to discover one thing to switch that.”

The Regina Farmers’ Market has posted a request for proposals (RFP) for a brand new summer time location beginning in Might 2024, that they’ll use to host the market on Wednesday and Saturdays between Might and October.

Laird mentioned the seek for a brand new location received’t be straightforward as there are a lot of totally different points that go into a big market.

“The infrastructure that we have to run a market isn’t essentially out there in quite a lot of locations round city however we’re hopeful that with sufficient time right here now to look into different choices we’ll discover one thing that will probably be actually nice for us,” Laird mentioned.

Irrespective of the place the market finally ends up, many distributors corresponding to Daybreak Hicks with Riverview Sausage will you should definitely comply with.

“I don’t know the place it’ll be however I’m certain I’m certain it will likely be someplace good after which we are going to stay up for going again to downtown,” Hicks mentioned.

For now, the market will kick off its last summer time on the Plaza for a very long time on Might 6, 2023.

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