Save Eastern Market

Shannon and I are literally itching for a weekend we're not out of town and away from the Market -- this weekend was spent in New York, alas. But we're fortunate to have great friends on the Hill who accommodated our small list of needs into their trip to the Market today, and who were kind enough to leave the food in our fridge! So there'll be fresh pasta and sauce for us this week, something that makes us both happy.

The Examiner had a brief article yesterday which was scarily titled “Eastern Market vendors relocation in limbo” -- but fortunately, the contents of the article are way less frightening. The gist of the piece is that a few of the merchants had a July 4th East Hall opening date in their minds, but we've now known for a few weeks that it'll likely be more like the end of July before we see an indoor building with all the merchants back in business. The article also gives voice to a few people's belief that there's no way, given the current state of the Hine lot, that the building will be done that soon -- but remember, the building is a tensile fabric skin stretched over a steel frame, all of which can be erected in a matter of days once the foundation is in place. So we're hopeful that we're looking at an East Hall somewhere around a month from now!