Argenta Market gets the green light!

We are in the final stages of our plans to do our new store in Argenta. It will be called Argenta Market and we are very excited to have put the final touches on the floor design this weekend. We now have a growing product list with much of it being from local producers, chefs, bakeries, farmers, etc.. Of course, we think you will be impressed when you see it the first time. Projected opening date is April 2008. 

Location: We are in a new building directly adjacent to Creegan’s Irish Pub, facing Main Street. Parking is scattered behind us, across the street, in the US BANK parking lot, and curbside for 30 min. loading unloading zone and quick pickups. 

I think we have cleared one of the last hurdles to form the first Cerfified Arkansas Farmer’s Market to serve farmers from all over the state. Thanks to some forward thinking property owners of prime Argenta real estate, we not only have a plan for 2008, we have an ambitious plan to expand the market in the coming year 2009, to a larger, custom space for our very important local food project. We have a good idea that the people of Argenta (as well as central Arkansas) are going to go from a food desert, to the food Mecca of Arkansas.   Our whole plan is to build a strictly governed local farmer’s market that serves as a market maker for local foods. The market maker is responsible for keeping demand strong by buying anything that has a weak demand at the farmer’s market by having marketing channels in place. Ours will begin on a small parking lot right on Main St. in downtown just across the street and a block down from our new local food store, Argenta Market, where we hope to do a significant amount of buying. We will help manage the market from our store location, and provide support to the local farmer’s while we build our new state of the art market facilities over the next year to two years. Ultimately, we want to build a market that chef’s love, and grocery stores from all over Arkansas will send in buyers for local commodities, meats, as well as fresh produce.