Despite objections from some vendors (“Cold Comfort,” January 2016), plans for an $800,000 building at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market are advancing at full speed. Market manager Sarah DeWitt emails that a $175,000 grant from the Downtown Development Authority has allowed the market to “move forward into the detailed design phase on the building, “which would face Fourth Ave. and extend partway into the market’s short central arm. In April the project was presented to the city’s design review board, which recommended lowering the roof to better fit the profile of the Depression-era sheds.
The DDA grant has effectively fast-tracked a construction project previously slated for 2017 at the earliest. If it wins approval from planning commission and city council, DeWitt says, construction could begin this fall.
