Remaking the Market: What's next in 2023 for West Side Market?

For the West Side Market, 2022 ended with lots of surveys, research, and analysis. It's all part of the 10-month plan to transition the iconic facility to nonprofit management, and we're told that phase is now about one-third of the way complete.
So what can we expect in the new year? In talking with spokesperson Jessica Trivisonno, in her office high above the Market's vendors, she explained where all that data goes now.
"We'll have a written report that's going to be coming out to summarize all that research," Trivisonno said. "All of that will be the foundation for the next phase of the master planning process, which will focus on the programmatic and physical experience and elements of the market."
The research she is referring to includes customer and vendor surveys done by the Market's advisory board and their national market consultant Ted Spitzer a few month ago. Interviews were conducted with all of the market's vendors, and nearly 450 customer surveys also took place over a three-day period.
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[@Clint_the_Audio-Photo_Guy]

#1 I would say, is fix the booths for the vendors so they have water and electrical always. Vendors were complaining and left the market because some of their basic needs weren't being met. The rent has got to be affordable as well. Make the vendors happy, so they can make the guests happy. As a patron of the market, I'm only unhappy when I don't see vendors with tons of fresh food to sell. I want great food, at good prices, and that can only happen if the rent isn't sky high. The parking lot system is perfect how it is. Get the scaffolding taken down as soon as possible so it doesn't look like a construction project for too long and keep it clean. Then Market the Market. Let the people know it's better than ever with gorgeous photos, smiling faces, great stories, and good PR. IMHO.

[@KENFEDOR22]

Nice story, I've enjoyed the WSM for 50 years. One critique, if I may, there's no such thing as "very unique". Something's either unique or it isn't.

[@cjenkins8785]

An outsider will "mess up" the Westside Market just like an outsider put bus stops in the middle of Euclid Avenue and then left the City.