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I think it’s safe to say that a lot (if not most) Southside residents have been to Danville’s Community Market at least once. In fact, I looked back at my photo collection and found that I have been inside the Community Market building 46 times in the last year. The building is used for the almost year-round Farmers Market as well as for large-scale events like the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce’s Shrimpfest , the museum’s Museum Meets Margaritaville and Racin’ & Tastin.<\/p>\n
The building is huge and has a standing room capacity of 1500. When you combine that size with a rental rate of only $120 per hour, you can see why it’s the #1 choice for public & private events in the area.<\/p>\n
Last Friday, I was there for the 2016 Fish N’ Friday fundraiser for the River District Festival. It was around 90\u00b0 outside when the event started. Even with most of the community room doors wide open and fans blowing, the heat was terrible. In fact, it was so bad that you could feel everybody had less energy in the room. And that’s not fair to the organizers of the event who paid $320 just to rent the community room section for four hours.<\/p>\n
Regarding the Farmers Market part of the building, let’s face it. You’ve got fresh produce, meat & eggs. Even with ice beds, your quality of product goes down when exposed to those levels of heat. Some of the baked goods vendors have had to pack up and leave before closing time because their products can’t take the heat.<\/p>\n
And even on a mid-temperature day or night, the place gets very stuffy when at capacity for events like the Shrimpfest. And I’m speaking from personal experience there. Ugh.<\/p>\n
It’s time for that to change.<\/p>\n
SouthsideCentral proposes that Danville’s Parks & Recreation department work with Danville City Council and City Manager Ken Larking to get a proposal and bid package together to install air conditioning for the entire Community Market building.<\/p>\n
Yes, it’s not going to be cheap. But, SouthsideCentral feels that the money spent would get a very good return on investment in two ways. First, it would make the Community Market more attractive to rent during hot weather months, plus it would make the end users of that building much more happier.<\/p>\n
Let’s make this happen.<\/p>\n
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Danville’s Community Market building can get unbearably hot during the summer months and that makes it bad for all the activities that go on there. It’s time to get this problem fixed.<\/p>\n
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