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One thing I cringe hearing about from Broadway Market detractors is how “ugly” the building is or how it is a “glorified parking ramp” or whatever…and how that works against the Market in being successful.<\/p>\n
I posted a couple pics earlier today of a building and its parking lot<\/a>.\u00a0 It is the Booth’s Corner Farmers Market<\/a> outside of Philadelphia. I was there about twelve years ago and made my way to it again about ten days while visiting family in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n The Booth’s Corner Farmers Market building isn’t much to look at.\u00a0 This, however, has no impact on its success.\u00a0 The place was rock-n-rolling in the short time I was there.\u00a0 It has everything you’d expect to see at a market…bakeries, butchers, produce, and everything in between.\u00a0 It’s layout was chaotic.\u00a0 I loved it.<\/p>\n As you will see in the pictures, a nice variety of different vendors.\u00a0 Heck, there was even a lawyer with a stand.<\/p>\n The broader point here is that the Broadway Market’s current building isn’t what is holding it back.\u00a0 People don’t complain during it’s busy season around Easter about the location or the building…it is what is inside that draws people.\u00a0 The building certainly needs some capital improvements and TLC, but the bones aren’t bad.<\/p>\n Ultimately though, the problem still remains on how to draw more people year round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [nggallery id=143](click on images for full view) One thing I cringe hearing about from Broadway Market detractors is how “ugly” the building is or how<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,8,623],"tags":[1134,152],"class_list":["post-8173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-b-f-places","category-b-f-preservation","tag-broadway-market","tag-the-broadway-market"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-27P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}