PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The Portage Farmers Market is relocating for the rest of 2024.
The city says it is moving from Portage City Hall to the Portage Zhang Senior Center’s north parking lot at 203 East Centre Avenue.
The move is due to improvements being made to Portage City Hall and the parking lot.
The Farmers Market will remain at the Zhang Senior Center through the end of the season on October 13 and will return to Portage City Hall in the spring.
There will be parking at the Portage Zhang Senior Center, along Brown Avenue and Courier Drive, the Portage Community Center, Comerica Bank, and Portage Parks & Recreation.
No Farmers Market parking will be available at Portage City Hall the rest of this year.
The City of Portage received 1.7 million dollars from the state in August of 2023 to fund construction of a permanent farmers market. Where is that money and why hasn’t construction begun? Why is the farmers market being uprooted in the middle of the season and shuffled to another cramped parking lot? Poor planning on the city’s part. We need some answers.