A terminal market is a central site, often in a

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, that serves as an assembly and trading place for

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. Terminal markets for

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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

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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 fro ...

– 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 Places * Grand, Oklahoma, USA * Grand, Vosges, village and commune in France with Gallo-Roman amphitheatre * Grand County (disambiguation) ...

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

Olvera Street Olvera Street, commonly known by its Spanish language, Spanish name Calle Olvera, is a historic pedestrian street in El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument, El Pueblo de Los Ángeles, the historic center of Los Angeles. The street is loc ...

– Los Angeles, CA * ROW DTLA, formerly Terminal Market - Los Angeles

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 the ...

– Atlanta, GA *

Sweet Auburn Curb Market The Municipal Market is a historic market located in Atlanta, Georgia, 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 ...

(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 Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes ...

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

Indiana

* Indiana - farmers' markets, IN

Louisiana

* Crescent City Farmers Market – New Orleans, LA *

French Market The French Market () 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 is the oldest of its k ...

– 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 (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in ...

– Baltimore, MD *

Hollins Market Hollins Market is the name of the oldest existing Marketplaces#Types, public market building in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. It is a contributing property to the Union Square, Baltimore, Union Square-Hollins Market Historic District. The ma ...

– Baltimore, MD *

Lexington Market Lexington Market (originally, Western Precincts Market) is a historic market in Downtown Baltimore, Maryland. Established in 1782, the market is now housed in a 60,000-square-foot market shed building completed in 2022 that is home to 50 merch ...

(1782–present) – Baltimore, MD

Massachusetts

Boston Public Market The Boston Public Market is an indoor Market (place), public market that opened in July 2015 in downtown Boston, adjacent to the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. The market houses more than 28 year-round vendor stalls, and is open seven days a ...

– 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)

* Troy Flea – Troy, NY

New York City

Bronx Terminal Market Bronx Terminal Market, also known as Gateway Center at Bronx Terminal Market, is a shopping mall along the Major Deegan Expressway in Concourse, Bronx, New York. The center encompasses just under one million square feet of retail space built on ...

- Bronx, NY *

Brooklyn Flea Brooklyn Flea is a company based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 2008 by Jonathan Butler, creator of Brownstoner Magazine, and Eric Demby, the former communications director for Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Flea runs s ...

– Brooklyn, NY *

Fulton Fish Market The Fulton Fish Market is a fish market in Hunts Point, a section of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It was originally a wing of the Fulton Market, established in 1822 to sell a variety of foodstuffs and produce. In November 2005, the ...

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 billio ...

- Bronx, NY *

La Marqueta La Marqueta is a marketplace under the Metro-North Railroad's Park Avenue Viaduct 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 ...

– New York, NY *

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

– 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 ...

(1855–present)– Cincinnati, OH *

North Market North Market is a food hall and public market in Columbus, Ohio. The Downtown Columbus, Ohio, 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 ...

– Columbus, OH *

PNC Second Street Market The 2nd Street Market is a public market in Dayton, Ohio. The market is located at the corner of Webster Street and East 2nd Street. It is Dayton's largest and oldest operating public market. In 2012, '' Country Living Magazine'' mentioned the marke ...

– 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 ...

– Cleveland, OH

Oregon

Portland

James Beard Public Market The James Beard Public Market is a proposed Marketplaces#Types, public market in Portland, Oregon, United States. Named after James Beard, a Portland-born chef and cookbook writer, the market is slated to open in the Selling Building and the Unga ...

(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 The Portland Saturday Market and Portland Skidmore Market are a pair of seasonal outdoor handicraft, arts, crafts, and Food carts in Portland, Oregon, food markets in Portland, Oregon held every Saturday from March through December. The Saturd ...

(1974–present) – Portland, OR

Pennsylvania

Broad Street Market The Broad Street Market, opened in 1863, is located in the Midtown (Harrisburg), Midtown List of Harrisburg neighborhoods, neighborhood of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the United States. Originally established on Broad Street (now Verbeke Street) ...

– 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, when it was transferred to a trust, the market was the oldest municipally-operated marke ...

– 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 Ph ...

(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 a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...

– 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 is a food hall located in Washington, D.C. It anchors the Union Market District, a neighborhood encompassing high-rise apartments, office buildings, retail, and entertainment options. It was formally known as Union Terminal Market w ...

– Washington, D.C.

Wisconsin

* Milwaukee Public Market (2005–present) – Milwaukee, WI

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