How Would You Revive The Pyatt Street Market?

[jay]

The Pyatt Street Diner has been closed for about a year of so.  This diner location could easily be converted into a small bakery business to serve the lower south side.  Eventually the rest of the building could reopen as a restaurant featuring many vegetarian menu items.  The vegetarian aspect might work because the Good Food Co-op is next door and both could benefit from each other's trade.

[jay]

Freecycling Youngstown has become a very popular way for the area's citizens to give away useable items.  

I'm proposing that we hold a "Give Away Day" at the Pyatt Street Market.  On the selected day and time, people would bring items that they want to give away and display them on the tables under the market's canopy.  Other citizens would be able to view the items and take what they need for free.  Items don't necessarily have to have value.  Scrap wood for a fire place would be acceptable for example.  At the end of the alloted time, items not given away would have to be taken back to the home where they came from.

Would anyone reading this board be willing to participate in a "Give Away Day?"  Please respond.

[john r. swierz]

  Don't count it out.  Certainly Mary is right that it is a back burner plan.  I have talked to the owner and I am working on a plan that my take some time.

[Mary_Krupa]

Well, I was down at the co-op recently and have thought about this. I think it is hopeless at this point because the entire area is scary and ugly and blighted and if no one has come forth by now to do something, I say it's a back burner project. I certainly don't have the time.

[jay]

The Pyatt Street Market was once a thriving outdoor vegetable market located on the lower south side of Youngstown.  I drove past the Pyatt Street Market last week and the only activity I observed was one mobile food service and the Good Food Co-op.  

What would it take to revive the Pyatt Street Market?  I'm sure that with a little effort some farmers could be convinced to return to sell fresh vegetables to south side residents.

The Pyatt Street Market is a south side landmark that should be revived.