CLAIMS MADE FOR THE ORTON JUNCTION DEVELOPMENT

CLAIM 6. To offer a Farmers Market to support the agriculture and farming of the valley.

Downtown Sumner needs the farmer's market! There will be an increasing demand for more farmers markets in the region as more people buy locally grown produce. As I mentioned before, the Red Apple Market is vacant and would be a good place for a farmers market. Or how about the park on the north side of town? What could be better for local Sumner businesses than a successful farmers market in proximity to downtown Sumner. The real question to this claim is what businesses in the downtown Sumner area benefit from a farmers market at Orton Junction? Has the city of Sumner "outsourced" it's economic development to the corporate stores that will more than likely occupy Orton Junction? It almost appears that the businesses of downtown have been thrown under the bus for this city proposal. Sumner could have a farmers market without this development.

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