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Originally Posted by Jimby
The Crossroads Market is close to downtown and has been going strong for 25 years.
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Not exactly the same thing. Crossroads may not be far from the core, but it's environment is anything but urban. It's in a suburban industrial stretch of land on Blackfoot Trail. It isn't the same as having a large farmers' market actually in an urban, walkable neighbourhood, like 10 blocks north in Inglewood. Crossroads isn't apart of the fabric of a residential neighbourhood, period, not even a suburban one. Even the Calgary Farmers Market, while a lot closer to a suburban residential community as the crow flies, is still siphoned off from it by a large suburban arterial with the residential area across the street putting up a wall facing the market. Calgary's major farmers' markets are just in really odd locations compared to other cities.