DEVELOPMENT Downtown Magnolia market, parking project targets 2024 completion
BY LIZZY SPANGLER
THE STROLL
The Market at Commerce—a Magnolia Economic Development 4B Corp. project to turn a parcel of land in downtown Magnolia into a parking and market space—is anticipated to be completed in 2024, Magnolia Economic Development Director Rachel Steele said. “The board had been looking stra- tegically for quite a while to look for that signi cant project that we could initiate and get started that would have some impact [in downtown],” Steele said. The project will be located on a 1.5-acre parcel of land on Commerce Street between Classic Collision and the Magnolia United Methodist Church, and add about 100-135 park- ing spaces, Steele said. She said more parking would help provide relief for the businesses along The Stroll, the paved pathway between FM 1488 and
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The Market at Commerce, a Magnolia Economic Development 4B Corp. project, is anticipated to nish in 2024 and add parking space with potential for outdoor market space on the property. (Rendering courtesy Magnolia Economic Development Corp.)
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with the development of the tract,” Steele said. The Market at Commerce project, funded by the 4B corporation, is projected to cost around $700,000, Steele said. Created in the 1990s, the 4B Corp. works to expand commer- cial enterprise in Magnolia while also assisting with quality of life develop- ment, she said. Steele said Venturi Engineering is providing the engineering services, and Studio Avid is the landscape architect for the project. The landscape
architect is working on identifying plants that will help shade the parcel, while the engineer is looking at site development options. “The Stroll is one of several commercial districts in the city, and it was time to see what we could do to infuse interest in the area,” Steele said. “Is it a nal x? No, I think things are always a work in progress. … But we hope that this will be a very large step toward getting some sustainable development down there in quite some time.”
Sanders Street. “We’re very excited because not only will it provide parking, but it will also [allow] us to facilitate local market drives, local farmers markets or pop- ups that may be able to come in and [be] legally permitted through the city, building an organic entrepreneurial system here in town,” Steele said. She said the corporation is also looking to create an established farmers market policy and program as part of its 2024 goals. “Hopefully [we will] coincide that
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