Dekalb Market: A New Local Market Gets Boxed In

JULY 29, 2011

An exciting new Downtown Brooklyn market “contains” urban efficiency and entrepreneurship as well as community, sustainability and quality.

Housed in a collection of salvaged shipping containers, Dekalb Market adds its own take on local market offerings to favorites like the Flea and Northside Market. Founder Eldon Scott caught the market bug at London’s sprawling Camden Locks market, where generations of Londoners have congregated for flea finds, clothing, housewares and edibles and a laid-back way to spend a weekend afternoon. Brooklyn is the perfect testing ground for a new market given the current boom in artisan food, flea markets and local farm-fresh produce—interest in buying from and supporting local businesses is at an all-time high.

Though permits and space-wrangling are always a challenge in the city, Scott found a brilliant solution to getting the market from drawing board to launch (which is scheduled to happen this weekend, on July 23). A contest, “Not Just a Container” asked the community to submit ideas for a retail establishment using shipping containers as home base, and the winner, BBOX Radio, provided the blueprint.

Unlike many of the city’s markets both farm and flea, Dekalb Market will be open 7 days a week, not just on weekends. With about 40 vendors of antiques, food, crafts, plus an on-site farm, cooking demos, live music and more, the new market has already filled over half of its available spaces in the orderly industrial honeycomb of stacked, corrugated containers.

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JULY 29, 2011

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