Planning and design for a new year-round vendor building and event space at Rochester’s Public Market is moving ahead.
The project would replace the C Shed. That is the one on the east side of the market near the Railroad Street entrance and parking lot.
Mayor Malik Evans is asking City Council to OK spending $1 million in federal pandemic relief funds to hire Plan Architectural Studio of Rochester to design the facility.
Plans are to replace the open-air shed built in 1967 with a one-story facility that has overhead doors that could be closed in bad weather. And, at the north end, to erect a two-story building with a rooftop deck and more space for vendors as well as market offices and a second-floor teaching kitchen and classroom.
Construction is likely at least two years off. Funding has yet to be solidified and project costs are estimated at more than $20 million, said market director Jim Farr.
