A terminal market is a central site, often in a metropolitan area, that serves as an assembly and trading place for

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. Terminal markets for

agricultural Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peopl ...

commodities are usually at or near major

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s. 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

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s and bullion.

List of terminal markets (fresh produce)

California

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

Los Angeles

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– Los Angeles, CA * Los Angeles Farmers Market – Los Angeles, CA *

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– Los Angeles, CA

Florida

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

Georgia

Ponce City Market Ponce City Market is a mixed-use development located in a former Sears catalogue facility in Atlanta, with national and local retail anchors, restaurants, a food hall, boutiques and offices, and residential units. It is located adjacent to th ...

– Atlanta, GA * Sweet Auburn Curb Market (1918–present) – Atlanta, GA

Illinois

Chicago

* Chicago farmers' markets 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 Maxwell Street is an east-west street in Chicago, Illinois that intersects with Halsted Street just south of Roosevelt Road. It runs at 1330 South in the numbering system running from 500 West to 1126 West.Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee (1988). ''St ...

– Chicago, IL

Indiana

* Indiana - farmers' markets, IN

Louisiana

* Crescent City Farmers Market – New Orleans, LA *

French Market The French Market (french: Marché français) is a market and series of commercial buildings spanning six blocks in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as a Native American trading post predating European colonization, the 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 ...

– Baltimore, MD *

Hollins Market Hollins Market is the name of the oldest existing public market building in the city of Baltimore Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and th ...

– Baltimore, MD *

Lexington Market Lexington Market is a historic market in Downtown Baltimore, Maryland. The market is now housed in a 60,000-square-foot market shed building completed in 2022 that is home to 50 merchants and kiosks. The market has occupied many market buildings ...

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

Michigan

* Eastern Market – Detroit, MI

Missouri

* Soulard Market – St. Louis, MO

Montana

* Midtown Global Market – Minneapolis, MN

New York (state)

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– 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 ...

– 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 North Market is a food hall and public market in Columbus, Ohio. The Downtown Columbus market was established in 1876, and was the second of four founded in Columbus. The market is managed by the non-profit North Market Development Authority (ND ...

– 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 R ...

– 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 Portland ...

(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, ce ...

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

Pennsylvania

Broad Street Market The Broad Street Market, opened in 1863, is located in the Midtown neighborhood of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the United States. Originally established on Broad Street (now Verbeke Street) by the Verbeke family, it is today one of the oldest co ...

– Harrisburg, PA * Italian Market – 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 Reading Terminal Market is an enclosed public market located at 12th and Arch Streets in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It opened originally in 1893 under the elevated train shed of the Reading Railroad Company after the city of Phila ...

(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 third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County wit ...

– 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 Pike Place Market is a Marketplaces#Types, public market in Seattle, Washington, United States. It opened on August 17, 1907, and is one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the United States. Overlooking the Elliott B ...

(1907–present) – Seattle, WA

Washington, D.C.

* Eastern Market – Washington, D.C. *

Union Market Union Market was formally known as Union Terminal Market when it started as a replacement market center for the old Center Market located near the National Mall in 1931. It became an important part of the Washington food infrastructure to feed a ...

– Washington, D.C.

Wisconsin

Milwaukee Public Market Milwaukee Public Market is a public market A marketplace or market place is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods. In different parts of the world, a marketplace may be ...

(2005–present) – Milwaukee, WI

References

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