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Market aims to be Pike Place’s counterpart Port Orchard’s new public market is set to open soon By RICHARD Walker Kitsap Week
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eattle Times business reporter Jon Talton wrote recently of being weary of communities that tout themselves as the “next Silicon Valley” or their marketplaces as “the next Clockwise from top: The public market sign. Brian Brozovic of Pike Place Market.” They Bay Street Meat Co. is a master butcher and self-styled “meat are different places with scientist.” On display is a restored Black Ball ferry propeller. different histories and difOn the cover: Matt Carter of Carter’s Chocolate and Ice Cream ferent economic forces. serves at a preview of the marketplace. POPM / Courtesy Ah, but dreams die hard, especially when it comes to the economy and jobs. And in Port Orchard, 4.5 million visitors a year,” the Puget Sound Navy Museum, take a 10-minute supporters of the new Port Port Orchard Mayor Tim boat ride to Port Orchard. Matthes said. “They come Orchard Public Market Now you’re in a laid-back over for day or two, but are daring to make the place, the antithesis most of the time they Pike Place Market of Seattle’s hustle and stay longer than comparison. bustle. Shop and dine at that. It makes (Incidentally, Cover the public market, visit sense to me to two weeks downtown’s antique shops, give them a reabefore the Story art galleries and historical son to take a ferry Port Orchard museum. ride. A full-time, allmarket’s soft For fun, let’s look at time market will help opening, a tenant, how the Port Orchard give the folks going to Bay Street Meat Co., split Public Market could be Seattle some an order Pike Place Market’s little other place to for bison cousin. “We thought of throw- go.” meat Location Here’s with a ing sides of beef at Don, how Matthes Pike Place Market: business but I don’t think he’d be envisions it: Overlooking Seattle’s at Pike Elliot Bay. Take a ferry able to catch them.” Place.) Port Orchard Public ride from The Susan Keller, Port Orchard Public Market Market: Slip 45 at Port Seattle to downOrchard Marina, overlookBremerton; town ing Sinclair Inlet. you don’t waterneed your front marketplace’s soft car. Walk along the wateropening is later this front in Bremerton, visit See Market, Page 9 month — the grand openthe USS Turner Joy and ing is scheduled for May 24, noon to 8 p.m. — and supporters hope the market will have the same effect as its larger counterpart across the water: Call Us Today for Be a catalyst for economic Special Prices! activity, contribute to community character and 10x20, 10x30 or 10x40 spaces livability, and bolster the Electronic Gate Access • Access 7 Days a Week community’s image and 24 Hour Video Monitoring identity. 7990 NE Ecology Rd. • Kingston WA 98346 “The last quote I saw 360-981-8099 was Seattle gets at least
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