Just in time for the summer season. The Detroit News map below gives a quick summary of this promising trend. This area has great potential for residential development.

Detroit's Eastern Market is sprouting new shops and preparing for a pickup in springtime activities as it becomes a bigger draw for city dwellers and suburbanites.

A coffee and tea store opened in March, and a popular cheese shop that changed hands and closed last fall is reopening in a few weeks, adding to an increasingly diversified mix of retailers, restaurants and food sellers.

The merchants hope to cash in on the increasingly larger crowds that the warmer weather brings to the century-old public market on Saturdays.

After last year's successful run, the market reopens in July on Tuesdays with farmers, flowers, produce dealers, specialty products and prepared-food vendors. The annual Flower Day is May 20 — the market's largest event and the unofficial kickoff for summer in the region, market officials say.

"Detroit's Eastern Market is rapidly becoming a major tourism draw because visitors enjoy weaving themselves into the fabric of the city," said Renee Monforton, director of communications for the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau.

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