Market Square construction moves outdoor farmers' market to Dundas Place

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 23, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

The Market Square astatine Covent Garden Market is nether operation this spring, which means the play outdoor marketplace and aboriginal outpouring festivals volition beryllium happening connected Dundas Place.

"Construction started successful our parking store past year, so it has been going connected for immoderate time," said Sam Regier, the events manager astatine the Covent Garden Market. "This is conscionable the adjacent phase, but structural repair work is taking place."

The construction is expected to beryllium complete by July 1, without immoderate large changes to the outdoor space.

"The crystal rink and everything volition beryllium going backmost in, and the layout of the quadrate volition fundamentally beryllium the same," said Regier, adding that determination volition beryllium nary interruptions to the wrong of the marketplace during construction.

The outdoor farmers' marketplace that traditionally takes implicit the quadrate connected Saturdays starting Easter play volition beryllium moving to Market Lane, a pedestrian corridor betwixt the marketplace and Dundas Place.

 "Some of the larger events that person formally taken spot connected the quadrate are either confirmed coming implicit oregon are inactive figuring out if and however they tin travel implicit to Dundas Place," said Ryan Craven, the manager of Core Area Programs astatine the City of London.

"We privation this to beryllium a assemblage space. We privation this to beryllium a thriving economical abstraction for the businesses and that's what we proceed to enactment toward," said Craven.

Upcoming events happening on Dundas Place:

• March 28: London Knights Playoff kickoff
• April 3: Art Crawl Thursdays begin
• April 12: Vintage connected the Block
• May 3: Free Comic Book Day

Changes coming to marketplace hours

Starting May 1, the Covent Garden Market volition beryllium closed connected Mondays, past unfastened Tuesday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and connected Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The changes mean vendors volition person one day disconnected a week, and radical who unrecorded downtown and be events volition person much clip to sojourn the marketplace erstwhile it's open.

"We're truly excited for the quadrate to beryllium done and invited backmost each of the festivals that person been present successful the past, and besides invited immoderate caller ones to the quadrate this year," said Regier.

A afloat database of events happening wrong the marketplace is disposable here.