A Community Kitchen at Eastern Market?
May 18, 2010
The commercial kitchen movement is on at Eastern Market. I attended a Focus Group last week about the feasablity of a Commercial Kitchen at the Market. Below are the details. If you, or someone you know might be interested, please see reach out and let us know your thoughts.
Eastern Market Corporation (EMC) is interested in establishing a commercial kitchen at Eastern Market that can offer a fully equipped kitchen facility to rent on part-time basis. This licensed kitchen facility will help entrepreneurs, specialty food processors, farmers, caterers and other small and medium size food businesses to develop, prepare or process value added products at reasonable rental rates on a flexible time-share basis. Users share equipment and other facilities associated with food preparation, storage and product development. Depending on users needs, the plan is to make available equipment like ovens, ranges, refrigerators, freezers, mixers, food processors, slicers, worktables, kitchen utensils, and others including storage space.
EMC is currently at the early stage of the kitchen development process. It has already made a decision to use shed five as the kitchen facility and, working with the Kraemer Design Group, has prepared a master plan to restructure the building including space for food preparation, storage and related business development support services. It has also identified some potential users of the facility. These are mainly new and existing:
(1) Caterers and related food service providers
(2) Entrepreneurs and specialty food producers and/or processors who want to prepare, process, or package food products.
In order to move forward with the kitchen facility development, EMC is now interested in learning more about specific service needs of potential customer groups at the facility. We would like to invite you to participate in a focus group session where we can hear your ideas on what a community kitchen in Eastern Market should be.
call 313.833.9300 x 106
email rfogelman@detroiteasternmarket.com
