A terminal market is a central site, often in a

metropolitan area A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metro area usually com ...

, that serves as an assembly and trading place for

commodities In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them. The price of a comm ...

. Terminal markets for

agricultural Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating Plant, plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of Sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of Domestication, domesticated species created food ...

commodities are usually at or near major transportation hubs. One of the models of a Terminal Market is a Hub-and-Spoke model wherein the Terminal Market is the hub which is to be linked to a number of collection centers - the spokes. The term is also used for markets in other commodities such as metals and

bullion Bullion is non-ferrous metal that has been refined to a high standard of elemental purity. The term is ordinarily applied to bulk metal used in the production of coins and especially to precious metals such as gold and silver. It comes from t ...

List of terminal markets (fresh produce)

California

Alemany Farmers' Market Bernal Heights ( ) is a residential neighborhood in southeastern San Francisco, California. The prominent Bernal Heights hill overlooks the San Francisco skyline and features a microwave transmission tower. The nearby Sutro Tower can be seen from ...

– San Francisco, CA * Ferry Plaza Farmers Market & Ferry Building Marketplace – San Francisco, CA

Los Angeles

Grand Central Market Grand may refer to: People with the name * Grand (surname) * Grand L. Bush (born 1955), American actor * Grand Mixer DXT, American turntablist * Grand Puba (born 1966), American rapper Places * Grand, Oklahoma * Grand, Vosges, village and commun ...

– Los Angeles, CA *

Los Angeles Farmers Market The Original Farmers Market is an area of food stalls, sit-down eateries, prepared food vendors, and produce markets in Los Angeles, California, at the corner of Fairfax Avenue and 3rd Street. First opened in July 1934, it is also a historic Los ...

– Los Angeles, CA *

Olvera Street Olvera Street (also ''Calle Olvera'' or ''Placita Olvera'', originally Calle de los Vignes, Vine Street, and Wine Street) is a historic street in downtown Los Angeles, and a part of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument, the area immediatel ...

– Los Angeles, CA

Florida

* Yellow Green Farmers Market (2010–present) — Hollywood, FL

Georgia

* Ponce City Market – Atlanta, GA *

Sweet Auburn Curb Market The Municipal Market is a historic market located in Atlanta, Georgia's Sweet Auburn Historic District at 209 Edgewood Avenue, S.W. The market operates as a nonprofit enterprise, with the building leased from the City of Atlanta and the individu ...

(1918–present) – Atlanta, GA

Illinois

Chicago

Chicago farmers' markets Chicago farmers' markets include approximately 30 open-air markets across neighborhoods with farmers from Illinois, and surrounding states including Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. Most of the markets are sponsored by the city and are held on o ...

Chicago, IL *

Chicago International Produce Market Chicago International Produce Market (or CIPM) is a wholesale produce market in Chicago, Illinois. It is the largest facility of its kind in the midwestern United States. Location The market is located on the near southwest side of Chicago, just ...

- Chicago, IL * Maxwell Street Market – Chicago, IL

Indiana

* Indiana - farmers' markets, IN

Louisiana

Crescent City Farmers Market Crescent City Farmers Market is an agricultural market in New Orleans, Louisiana. Early development The French and later the Spanish colonial governments followed these European practices in New Orleans. Under the French, market activity began on ...

– New Orleans, LA * French Market – New Orleans, LA

Maryland

Baltimore

Cross Street Market The Cross Street Market is a historic marketplace built in the 19th century in Federal Hill, Baltimore, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country C ...

– Baltimore, MD *

Hollins Market Hollins Market is the name of the oldest existing public market building in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. It is a contributing property to the Union Square-Hollins Market Historic District. The market, located at 26 South Arlington Ave just ...

– Baltimore, MD * Lexington Market (1782–present) – Baltimore, MD

Massachusetts

Boston Public Market The Boston Public Market is an indoor public market that opened in July 2015 in downtown Boston, adjacent to the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. The market houses more than 35 year-round vendor stalls, and is open seven days a week. An outdoor ...

– Boston, MA *

Haymarket Haymarket may refer to: Places Australia * Haymarket, New South Wales, area of Sydney, Australia Germany * Heumarkt (KVB), transport interchange in Cologne on the site of the Heumarkt (literally: hay market) Russia * Sennaya Square (''Hay Squ ...

– Boston, MA * New England Produce Center - Chelsea, MA

Michigan

* Eastern Market – Detroit, MI

Missouri

* Soulard Market – St. Louis, MO

Montana

Midtown Global Market The Midtown Exchange is a historic structure and Mixed-use development, mixed-use building located in the Midtown, Minneapolis, Midtown neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is the second-largest building in Minnesota in terms o ...

– Minneapolis, MN

New York (state)

* Troy Flea – Troy, NY

New York City

* Bronx Terminal Market - Bronx, NY *

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– Brooklyn, NY * Fulton Fish Market New York, NY *

– New York, NY *

Hunts Point Cooperative Market The Hunts Point Cooperative Market is a 24/7 wholesale food market located on in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. The largest food distribution center of its kind in the world, it earns annual revenues of over $2 billion ...

- Bronx, NY *

La Marqueta La Marqueta is a marketplace under the elevated Metro North railway tracks between 111th Street and 116th Street on Park Avenue in East Harlem in Manhattan, New York City. Its official address is 1590 Park Avenue. In its heyday in the 1950s a ...

– New York, NY *

Union Square Greenmarket Union Square is a historic intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road – now Fourth Avenue – came together in the early 19th century. Its name denotes ...

– New York, NY

Ohio

Findlay Market Findlay Market in historic Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio, is the state's oldest continuously operated public market. The Findlay Market Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on June 5, 1972. The market is the la ...

(1855–present)– Cincinnati, OH * North Market – Columbus, OH * PNC Second Street Market – Dayton, OH *

West Side Market The West Side Market is the oldest operating indoor/outdoor market space in Cleveland, Ohio. It is located at the corner of West 25th Street and Lorain Avenue in the Ohio City neighborhood. On December 18, 1973, it was added to the National Regi ...

– Cleveland, OH

Oregon

Portland

James Beard Public Market The James Beard Public Market is a proposed public market in Portland, Oregon. It is named after James Beard, a Portland-born chef and cookbook writer. The market was planned to be located at the west end of the Morrison Bridge in downtown Portlan ...

(future) – Portland, OR *

Portland Public Market The Portland Public Market was a public market in Portland, Oregon, United States, built in 1933 at a widely advertised cost of $1 million ($ million in ). Controversial and ambitious, it was intended to replace the Carroll Public Market, c ...

(1933–1942) – Portland, OR * Portland Saturday Market (1974–present) – Portland, OR

Pennsylvania

* Broad Street Market – Harrisburg, PA *

Italian Market The Italian Market is the popular name for the South 9th Street Curb Market, an area of South Philadelphia featuring awning covered sidewalks, curb carts, grocery shops, cafes, restaurants, bakeries, cheese shops, butcher shops, etc., many with an ...

– Philadelphia, PA *

Lancaster Central Market Central Market, also known as Lancaster Central Market, is a historic public market located in Penn Square, in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Until 2005, the market was the oldest municipally-operated market in the United States. The Central ...

– Lancaster, PA * Reading Terminal Market (1893–present) – Philadelphia, PA

Rhode island

* Providence Terminal Produce Market - Providence, RI

South Carolina

* City Market - Charleston, SC

Tennessee

Chattanooga Market The Chattanooga Market is the region's largest producer-only arts and crafts and farmers' market. It is held every Sunday from April to December at the open-air First Horizon Pavilion in Chattanooga, Tennessee, typically from 11am until 4pm (hour ...

(2001–present) – Chattanooga, TN

Texas

Dallas Farmers Market Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...

– Dallas, TX

Virginia

* City Market – Petersburg, VA. Built in 1878–79 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Washington (state)

* Pike Place Market (1907–present) – Seattle, WA

Washington, D.C.

* Eastern Market – Washington, D.C. * Union Market – Washington, D.C.

Wisconsin

Milwaukee Public Market Milwaukee Public Market is a public market located in the Historic Third Ward neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Space in the building is leased to vendors, primarily local food businesses. The market's founders drew inspiration for the d ...

(2005–present) – Milwaukee, WI

References

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