Old Town/Chinatown News

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Regardless of what I said above about the Galleria being a good spot for the market, one of the original locations for the public market was under the Burnside bridge, with Saturday market also under the bridge, but in the park. It makes a lot of sense to me, since you'd have activity under the bridge every day, which should make the area less frightening to suburbanites and Saturday market basically becomes an extension of the daily market. If they're not going to put the market there, then I don't understand why they're still talking about moving Saturday market. Is it because Mercy Corps eventually hopes to redevelop the lot around their new building?

Re: the train station, I can't imagine that the city would be willing to spend the millions to build a train station at (under, right?) the MC. When I read about the station moving to the east side I assumed they were talking about a platform somewhere along SE 3rd with a little ticket office and empty waiting room. OK, maybe not quite *that* Houstonesque, but close.