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Grand Rapids Downtown Market Offers All Types Of Local Flavor

The $30 million Grand Rapids Downtown Market is definitely the place to go for the best in Michigan when it comes to fresh local fruits and vegetables, flowers, delicious baked goods, jams and jellies, beef, fish and so much more. Dozens of farmers and artisans are in the outdoor farmer’s market. The vendors are happy to answer any questions, tell you how long it will be until produce ripens and how to prepare it in a new or traditional way. Education in healthy eating and living is also given.

When you support local businesses, it cuts down on the distance food has to travel and thus makes it fresher and taste better, and you make the community a better place.

The 138,000 square foot indoor 24-vendor Market Hall is culinary heaven with bakers, butchers, fishmongers and others. Everything is so fresh that it may have been just made that hour or morning.

You can also enjoy local entertainers including singers, dancers, jugglers, hula hoopers and musicians. See the local arts and crafts. Other activities, especially for holidays, round out the fun at the Market.

It is the goal of the Downtown Market to be the first LEED-certified market in the United States. From the ground to the top of the roof, it has been made into an environmentally friendly facility. There are 5,000 square feet of green roofs and 1,400 square feet of live wall as well as geotherm wells that bring a $20,000 per year savings in energy costs, rain gardens, Energy Star rated kitchen equipment, and LED lighting that saves $18,000 a year in energy costs.

Are you looking for a place for an important private event such as a wedding reception, special birthday or anniversary party, holiday celebration or corporate meeting? Contact their Event Coordinator to arrange for a specific date in the rooftop Greenhouse with a view of downtown Grand Rapids or make use of the outdoor terrace and kitchen or the nation’s first demonstration kitchen for kids. There will soon be two full-service restaurants, one of which will be a micro-brewery.

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