BERLIN -- For the first time since its founding two decades ago, the Berlin Farmers Market might be leaving downtown.
According to the Chamber of Commerce, the move will be a win-win for farmers and Berlin, serving to free-up much needed parking space downtown while giving farmers two new, larger locations to operate from.
However, several of those same farmers are passionately opposed to the re-location, saying it was decided without their consent and could doom the market.
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6 comments:
The vendors should be upset. They stepped up to the plate at the very beginning of the revitalization and have remained a fixture ever since. Now they are being tossed aside. The town has no ethics. First the FD and now this.
It could be a good move, but it wasn't handled correctly. The farmers should have been involved and had a say. They shouldn't have been told.
Screw the damned farmers! They are just out for the big bucks! Nobody liked them anyway, and they should be banished to a roadside stand somewhere Willards!
Berlin is now just fine without them!
Oh, sure, they are the reason and the attraction that brought the whole "Small town/ Downtown" together, but now that we're at 100% capacity, well, we sure don't want their sorry a$$es around to suck up our profits! NOSIREEE!
Kick them to the curb so we can sell our bu11$hit tourist trinkets and get on without the "Riff-Raff"
Berlin is as dead a a door nail except on Farmer's Market days and events like the Fiddler's Convention. Except for the doctor's and dentists, senior center or whatever it is and Burbage no one does any real business in that town. I go to the old Farlow's Pharmacy antique mall most of the time I'm the only person in that hugh place. Half the stores are closed alot of the times.
Sad part is that the downtown businesses gained from people that were drawn to town for the farmers market...not the other way around.
You are right 7:39. I'm in Berlin twice a week on a year round basis and the place is a ghost town as far as pedestrians unless it's Farmer's Market day or another event or a funeral at Burbage. Most of the time you can take you pick of parking places. If some businesses feel they are losing business due to parking issues on Farmer's Markets days then they need to look into finding a lot and doing a valet sort of thing on market days. Rent some spaces from the FD could be an option. It's up to the businesses to find a solution and not upset the apple cart.
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