(Bryan Meyer – Buffalo News) The future of the Broadway Market could be heavily influenced by the outcome of a job search that City Hall has launched for a new executive director.
The man who has been running the ailing East Side icon for the past year hopes to be reappointed to the job. Thomas A. Kerr, a former senior manager for the Internal Revenue Service, claims headway has been made in trying to broaden the market’s clientele, shore up its vendor base and improve its infrastructure.
However, some critics are prodding the city to replace Kerr, depicting him as a heavy-handed manager with a big ego who lacks experience in food retailing.
A selection panel made up of vendors, neighborhood activists and city officials met Wednesday to begin reviewing the resumes of 22 applicants for a job that would oversee what is touted as the nation’s oldest continually operating public market.
But it’s also a market that has been struggling for survival in recent decades. As population in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood continued to shrink, so too did the market’s vendor base and customer volume. Blight and neighborhood crime concerns have compounded the market’s malaise.
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