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Summer 2020 • ISSUE #13 FRESH FOCUS at FISHNET — MERCHANT SPOTLIGHT — Each menu item at Fishnet excels in its own way. The Fish & Chips and Nutella Mousse are the ultimate PAGE 2 ______________ comfort foods, one fulfilling your FROM THE LEADERSHIP savory cravings and the other to PAGE 3 ______________ satisfy your sweet tooth. The Baja NEWS & UPDATES Fish Wraps, featuring grilled salmon • Cajou Creamery and on corn tortillas and topped with Cuples Tea House Moving house made citrus slaw, will trick to Howard Row you into thinking you are at the • Market Center Strategic beach or on a boat. Fishnet Revitalization Plan, Phase II, remembers the kids, too, with their Kicks Off in September Fish Stick Platter. • Introducing The Meadow, a New Park at 200 W. Lexington Fishnet continues to reach and • Business News & Notes serve customers in new ways • Lexington Market Vendor throughout the pandemic. Virtual Application Process Opens cooking classes, including Cooking • Lexington Market Public with Kids: Homemade Biscuits, and History Project Invites You take-home meal kits allow to Share Your Memories customers to safely recreate the PAGE 5 ______________ Fishnet experience in their own MCMA COMMITTEE homes. UPDATES In addition to dining in at Mt. PAGE 6 ______________ INFORMATION FOR Vernon Marketplace, Fishnet makes There is no microwave at Fishnet in Mount Vernon MEMBERS online ordering and curbside pick- Marketplace. Keyia and Ferhat Yalcin, owners of • Temporary Outdoor up a breeze! Fishnet, are firmly committed to only using the Dining Permits freshest ingredients for their admirably focused • Welcome New Board menu. No microwave required! Members • Thank You, Robert Max • Resources for Businesses Fishnet Restaurant PAGE 7 ______________ Mount Vernon Marketplace, 520 Park ABOUT THE DISTRICT Avenue WELCOME NEW BUSINESSES —1— PAGE 8 ______________ DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY FROM THE LEADERSHIP — OF THE MARKET CENTER MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION — FROM MCMA PRESIDENT JUDSON H. KERR, III, AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR KRISTEN MITCHELL Despite the health and economic challenges we are facing together during the Coronavirus pandemic, Market Center continues to shine! We’ve welcomed several new, unique businesses to Market Center since March. Mess in a Bottle, Free Ink Studio, and Lady Dee Cares, for example, have all opened their own storefronts (for a complete list of new businesses, see page 8). Cajou Creamery and Cuples Tea House, the winners of the Howard Row Small Business Storefront Competition, plan to open this fall at 411 and 409 N. Howard Street, respectively. Both Cuples and Cajou raised additional resources to support their expansions through crowdfunding, tapping into a heightened desire to support local and Black-owned businesses. Many Market Center businesses are adapting to the new reality by changing their product mix or venturing further into online sales and programming to compensate for fewer in-person customers. Jody Davis Designs now sells beautiful and high-quality face masks, Bikram Yoga Works hosts on-line classes, and M.A.P. Technologies placed its inventory of games and accessories on a revamped website. Despite a slowdown in the supply chain and additional health and safety rules, developers are currently building hundreds of apartments and hotel rooms and thousands of square feet of retail space in Market Center. Four Ten Lofts, Lexington Market, Prosper on Fayette, and Springhill Suites are all under construction. For a full list and map of development activity, visit our Development Activity page on the website. We hope you’ll make it down to Market Center’s new park soon! The Meadow, located at 200 W. Lexington Street (next to the Catholic Relief Services building), is a temporary park enabling people to spend time (and money!) in Market Center/Bromo Arts without compromising their health. MCMA, the Bromo Arts and Entertainment District, and PI.KL Studio partnered together on this project. For more on this this story, see page 4. We hope this positive news brightens your day. When we think of all the hardworking people in Market Center, it certainly brightens ours. Volunteers Jenny Kessler Klump and Modinat Sanni paint the amphitheater- style seating at The Meadow, and picnic tables await diners. —2— NEWS & UPDATES — IN THE MARKET CENTER — CAJOU CREAMERY AND CUPLES and Dwight Campbell have deep MARKET CENTER STRATEGIC TEA HOUSE WIN SMALL Caribbean roots. As a result of REVITALIZATION PLAN, PHASE II, BUSINESS STOREFRONT picking ingredients for meals in KICKS OFF THIS FALL COMPETITION AND WILL MOVE the backyards of their childhood ------------------------------- TO HOWARD ROW homes, they are passionate about The Market Center CDC will begin ------------------------------- real, whole food. Motivated by Phase II of the Strategic This fall, visitors to the 400 block their lactose-intolerant children Revitalization Plan this fall. We of Howard Street in Market to create a dairy-free ice cream, want to hear from as many Center are in for a treat. Cajou they offer seven refreshing people as possible: residents, Creamery and Cuples Tea House flavors inspired by their global business and property owners, will each open their first brick- travels. They also plan to add artists, employees, customers, and-mortar storefronts at more vegan products to their regular visitors, students, transit Howard Row. The businesses menu this fall. riders, and tourists. were selected through the Howard Row Small Business Cuples Tea House has 40+ tea The goal of this phase is to make Storefront Competition in early blends on its menu of premium sure we are all in agreement on 2020, sponsored by Poverni loose-leaf teas, hosts tea tastings important topics within the plan. Sheikh Group and managed by and education classes, and sells These include: MCMA and Charles Street tea accessories. Owners Lynnette Development. and Eric Dodson’s vision marries a 1. Housing: Programs, policies, tea bar for customers to enjoy and incentives to retain MCMA is thrilled to welcome their delicious drinks along with a affordable housing or specific these businesses to Market retail shop selling tea and types of housing, such as housing Center and to have met other accessories at the 409 N. Howard for seniors or families Baltimore entrepreneurs. storefront. They plan to combine culture, music, art, and tea 2. Economy: Workforce Cajou Creamery, known for its education in a socially connected development needs, programs, creamy and delicious plant-based atmosphere, with tea as the link policies, and incentives to ice cream, made exclusively from that makes it all possible. They encourage entrepreneurship, handcrafted almond and cashew want to inspire healthier community wealth building, and milks, will open a retail shop and communities by educating people building stabilization and reuse production facility at 411 N. about the many benefits of Howard. Owners Nicole Foster drinking tea, a beverage rich with 3. Transportation: On-street antioxidants and the power to parking restrictions, bike lanes, boost mental clarity. bus routes and stops, “complete streets” and “slow streets,” potential for a multimodal transit center, other public transit needs 4. Environment & Quality of Life: Programs/policies related to public safety 5. Community Engagement: Structure for ongoing community engagement For information, or to sign up for Sunflowers on Howard Street, courtesy of Harris-Kupfer project updates and opportunities Architects; Market Center stakeholders discuss “Greening to participate, visit the Strategic the district” at the March Market Center Mingle. Plan page on our website. —3— INTRODUCING THE MEADOW, A BUSINESS NEWS & NOTES Your Business for Public Markets NEW PARK AT 200 W. ------------------------------- (instructed by Kim Bryden and LEXINGTON STREET Lexington Market is now Kathleen Overman, Cureate). ------------------------------- open Monday-Saturday, 8 MCMA & Bromo Arts worked a.m. to 5 p.m. The new Lexington Market will with PI.KL Studio to create The M.A.P. Technologies (229 open in early 2022. Meadow, a temporary park at Park) is renovating the 200 W. Lexington Street with interior of their building LEXINGTON MARKET PUBLIC shaded outdoor seating. The Arrow Parking (210 W. HISTORY PROJECT INVITES YOU Meadow also offers small scale Baltimore), Artstar Custom TO SHARE YOUR MEMORIES vending opportunities for PaintWorks (321 W. ------------------------------- businesses located in Market Madison), Etta’s Beauty Thanks to a grant from the Center and Bromo Arts. Salon (207 W. Saratoga), and Maryland Historical Society Presentable Cutz, 117 W. Pathways program, the Market Visual cues such as flags, ground Saratoga) all have fresh Center Community Development stencils, and lighting connect The façade paint. Corporation, Baltimore Heritage, Meadow to other parts of the Treasures Day Care has a Lexington Market, and Seawall district and are intended to lure new name: Choo Choo Train will soon start the Lexington park visitors to businesses and Childcare Center (210 W. Market Public History Project. arts organizations, and vice versa. Saratoga). This project will showcase the If you sell food, you can direct LEXINGTON MARKET VENDOR history of Baltimore’s premiere your customers to enjoy their APPLICATION PROCESS OPENS public market by asking people to meal at The Meadow. If you own ------------------------------- share stories and personal a daycare, you can accompany remembrances of the Market, Interested in becoming a vendor the children to The Meadow to in