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Monday, May 7, 2007

Eastern Market vendors seek nearby site for now

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Vendors at the historic Eastern Market are looking for help from the city in finding a temporary home after last week's fire gutted parts of the building.

At a community meeting last night at Hine Junior High School, city officials pledged to give them just that.

"We really do have something amazing here, something special, something world-class," said D.C. City Administrator Dan Tangherlini, who helped moderate the meeting along with Mayor Adrian M. Fenty. "We need to do everything we can to preserve it."

Officials with the Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee said 13 merchants who held spots at the 134-year-old market on the 200 block of Seventh Street Southeast were displaced by the three-alarm blaze April 30. An electrical short started the blaze, which caused $5 million to $10 million in damage.

Mr. Fenty has pledged to rebuild the Capitol Hill staple "100 percent" using supplemental revenue expected to be certified this week by the city's chief financial officer, Natwar M. Gandhi.

Plans for full restoration are expected to take at least 18 months. In the meantime, officials are looking for temporary locations for the merchants, who sell everything from pastries and poultry to dairy products.

More than 500 people packed into two auditoriums at Hine Junior High in Southeast for last night's meeting, geared toward taking suggestions for nearby locations where a temporary structure could be built to house the market's businesses.

"This has to be a process," Mr. Fenty told the crowd. "Even though we're going to move fast, even though we're going to move quickly, this has to be a community-driven process."

Participants gathered in groups to discuss their preferences among three suggested replacement locations: the north parking lot of Hine, the plaza at the Eastern Market Metro stop across Pennsylvania Avenue and along Seventh Street Southeast.

Mr. Tangherlini said all three spots were "equal, interesting options," but the Hine and Eastern Market sites were preferable.

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