Loveland, Ohio – “I am doing due diligence on the McCoy property. I am considering three other locations too,” Donna Bednar told Loveland Magazine today. City Manager, Dave Kennedy said last week in the city newsletter that he has formally offered the use of the new McCoy Parking lot along Broadway Avenue as the site of the Loveland Farmers’ Market. The lot is under construction and is anticipated to be blacktopped prior to the commencement of the Market opening, according to Kennedy.

Bednar’s attempt to receive a vendor’s permit to return the market to the Jackson Street Market location in Historic Downtown has been rebuffed by Kennedy who cites concerns over additional traffic. The market moved from the Jackson Street Market last year to the site of the former bowling alley on Loveland Madeira Road, after Bednar received assurances she could return to Jackson Street Market this season after the bulk of the construction at Loveland Station Apartments was completed.

Bednar has been extremely grateful to Kennedy’s efforts to find a solution for the market location for the 2016 season, however expressed consternation that Kennedy’s announcement has left the impression, even with some council members that the deal is done and the market will be at McCoy. Bednar said, “Not even close yet.”

These LOVELAND MAGAZINE TV videos are from the recent city council meeting on February 23, when Bednar took to the podium to plead her case. She talked about the history of the market, its purpose, and compares the advantage of returning to the Jackson Street Market location vs. the McCoy parking lot at Broadway and Anshultz Avenue. The second video is City Manager Dave Kennedy making his case for holding the market at the McCoy parking lot.

 

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  1. Doesn’t Ms Donna get it. It’s illegal at Jackson St. Her husband helped write the ordinance for her and her chums. It has to be on city property, get it. Oh the entitled, they never are satisfied.

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