My first experiences at the Chene Ferry market were at the end of it's days as a market and I was actually there to drop off recycling. I used to stop at the bakery in that area and there was also a hardware store left and a men's store and maybe a bar, but you could see that the destiny of the area was that it would close up a bit at a time.

Nowadays things are different, not only are more people coming downtown and even moving downtown but Eastern Market is booming. It's possible that the shed at Chene-Ferry might actually serve as a farmers market again someday if the facility does not collapse. Local farm produce is the trend and many local cities have farmers markets at least one day a week in warm weather. I no longer live on the East Side and am almost never in the Chene-Ferry area, but my last trip down Chene about five years ago was sad. It reminded me of Delray, abandoned and bleak.