Well we wrapped up our holiday season at the Bend Indoor Market this past Saturday. While the market will continue to run each weekend, we have decided to take a little bread, spend some time with the kids, and enjoy the end of the year as a family.
We had a great time at the market! We were able to introduce Bend Cookie Company to a whole host of new customers and made some great new friends along the way. All of the cookies were a hit, but Gina’s hand decorated sugar cookies continued to “wow” everyone and were snatched up as quickly as we could produce them.
We are thinking about working the market around Valentines day, we already are working on some great designs that we think everyone will love and are sure to be a great way to ask “will you be my Valentine?”
Thanks to everyone who helped support our business this past year!
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Apparently the city of Bend has concerns about the market occupying its current location…something to do with zoning, etc. I received an email from Jennifer White this morning about an upcoming city council meeting:
We are hoping that all of you will attend the meeting to show support for the Market. Please feel free to make copies and give to as many people as possible. We need to let them know how important this issue is to all of us. Be there, help save the Bend Indoor Markets.
BEND INDOOR MARKETS
On the first Wednesday of the new year, January 5 th, at 7:00pm at 710 NW Wall St Downtown, a plea to the City Council will be made to continue to permit the Indoor Markets to operate without City interference.
Eric King, City Manager, has determined that the use of the specific building, under the present zoning code, is proper during the week (used for storage). As the Markets plan to be open to the public only 10 hours a week on average, that means that about 94% of the week’s 168 hours, the occupancy is conforming according to King’s interpretation of a code written in an ambiguous manner, lacks clarity, and most important, the City has allowed other businesses of a like nature to exist for years.
As even Mr. King has admitted, Bend Indoor Markets is a benefit to Bend. At this meeting, the Bend City Council will be asked for its support of not only the Markets, but for the residents and tourists to have more in Bend than Big Boxes and small franchises. These markets offer the sole place where a person of limited means can attempt a start in business at very low cost with a physical presence (more than eBay or Craig’s List!!).
Please bring your family and friends to this meeting to demonstrate to the Council that Bend Indoor Markets fills a definite need in a City of too many people in economic distress.
Additionally, I, Stephan White,paid about $15,000 to have a determination made by a Hearing Officer that Freeman Motors was a legal usage in this building. I will not pay any more. The City desperately needs money. The people in the Markets cannot afford to pay more than they are now!
This is a fine opportunity for the City Council to demonstrate that it truly is “business friendly.”
Stephan White
bendindoormarkets@hotmail.com
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