Kitchener to get new mid-week lunch-hour market in June

The City of Kitchener is going to try out a new mid-week, lunch-hour market downtown at Carl Zehr Square in front of city hall.

The market will run Wednesdays in June from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. starting Wednesday, June 1.

Downtown marketing and program co-ordinator Hilary Abel said the market is in response to a community consultation in 2012 where residents said they missed a mid-week urban market that was held in the 1990s.

"With increased community support of the buy local movement, and recent successful mid-week markets around the region, it seems only logical that we explore the viability of a mid-week market downtown," Abel said in a release.

Food, bike repairs and live music

The market will be run in collaboration with the Kitchener Market and the Downtown Kitchener BIA. It will feature local food entrepreneurs selling a variety of items.

Bike Kitchener will also be providing free, secure lock-up for cyclists and Velofix mobile bike repair will be offering their services. Breadheads Mobile Pizza Oven will be at the market each week making fresh pizza.

There will also be live music from Tea for Two and Organized Kaos.

If there is bad weather, the market will move into the city hall's rotunda.