The East Town Association, the group that brings you Jazz in the Park, Bastille Days and the East Town Market (as well as a host of other activities and missions) will add another event to Downtown this summer when it expands its market to Tuesday afternoon and evenings.
The East Town Market, a favorite of mine, runs June-September at Cathedral Square Park. This summer, though, it will expand its produce, food, arts, crafts and prepared foods vendors to Tuesdays.
The Tuesday market will run 3-7 p.m. and open June 7. The Saturday market will open June 4 and, as always, runs 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
This is great news for Downtown and should even better highlight and complement the amazing Wednesday Westown Market at Zeidler Square and, of course, the Milwaukee Public Market, as well as all of the other markets in and around the city.
Here's to summer, and stay tuned for a full list of area farmers' markets. We will post it when they are all confirmed.
A life-long and passionate community leader and Milwaukeean, Jeff Sherman is a co-founder of OnMilwaukee.
He grew up in Wauwatosa and graduated from Marquette University, as a Warrior. He holds an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University, and is the founding president of Young Professionals of Milwaukee (YPM)/Fuel Milwaukee.
Early in his career, Sherman was one of youngest members of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, and currently is involved in numerous civic and community groups - including board positions at The Wisconsin Center District, Wisconsin Club and Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. He's honored to have been named to The Business Journal's "30 under 30" and Milwaukee Magazine's "35 under 35" lists.
He owns a condo in Downtown and lives in greater Milwaukee with his wife Stephanie, his son, Jake, and daughter Pierce. He's a political, music, sports and news junkie and thinks, for what it's worth, that all new movies should be released in theaters, on demand, online and on DVD simultaneously.
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