By Tes Welborn, HANC Board
What is a Farmers Market worth? The Heart of the City Farmers Market has abruptly been relocated to a smaller site without any public process. In its place, Rec and Park plans a skateboard park, ping pong, and various card table games. All of this appears to be so San Francisco looks good for the APEC event in November, Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Meeting. Biden and other Asian Pacific heads of state will attend.
The Tenderloin community, now part of District 5, has no other “supermarket” than this Farmers Market. Residents and neighbors rallied, many of them seniors, Wednesday August 30 to oppose the move and smaller site. The Market is also patronized by shoppers from other parts of the city and by tourists.