The Downtown Farmers Market will return to a renovated Pioneer Park next summer, but plans for a permanent market building that could have brought winter shoppers to the park have fallen through.
The Downtown Alliance and Salt Lake City spent about a year and a half exploring whether to build a year-round market facility at the downtown park. The Alliance announced this week that the two sides could not find a construction and ownership arrangement that worked for both.
Dee Brewer, executive director of the Downtown Alliance, said the group determined that the cost outweighed the benefits of constructing the building. Ownership and the use of public green space were also part of the discussion…