NewMarketWilm: four | 2018

FOUR | 2018

Dear summer, You sure took your sweet time getting here. Some years, you burst into life on your own. This year, we had to drag you along like a petulant child, kicking and clawing and raining down on us all the way. So much raining. But now you’re here. And we’re not letting go. We will dance in the streets at Ladybug. We will sit outdoors in the shade of Willingtown Square and and enjoy a cool breeze. We will eat our UDairy Creamery ice cream cones at lunch — or maybe instead of lunch. Summer took its sweet time. Now its our time, on Market.

LIVE MEET EXPERIENCE TASTE SHOP

PHAT CUTS, RIGHT OFF MARKET AT 4 E. 7TH ST.

#MEET “My business has been downtown since 1997. I had two shops at first. The first was at 4th and Van Buren. But Wilmington, downtown, is a unique place. And I didn’t want to be a neighborhood shop – I wanted to be a Wilmington shop.” - Craig ‘Skilz’ McLaurin, owner & barber.

“He (Hiro) gets so much attention. Every time we go out. He has dog walkers while I’m in school, and they’ve started calling him the

‘Mayor of Market Street.’

RYAN EANES & HIS DOG HIRO I was really impressed when I found the BPG buildings, because pretty much all of them are pet friendly.”

CURRENT SITUATION:

Downtown Cinco de Mayo Festival Block Party 4-10 p.m., May 4, 2018 | Outside Ernest & Scott

#NEWMARKETWILM

FARMERS MARKET & FOOD TRUCKS

#TASTE

So you actually opened the same weekend as Stitch House Brewery?

“Yeah, so that was awesome. Hey, I love those guys down there. I couldn’t believe we opened up essentially the same Merchants Bar

day. But talking to folks in Wilmington, there’s a lot of business getting lined up to open. And I’m not upset about that. It gives everybody more life. So now people can come down here for dinner every night of the week, versus one or two.” - Mike Day, owner, Farmer & the Cow

STITCH HOUSE BREWERY

FARMER & THE COW

HAVING A CHAT AT COFFEE MODE ON MARKET

THE MARKET STREET BOOK CLUB

David Teague (pictured left) and Roger Festa (pictured right), the professor and the entrepreneur, are dipping their toes into waters largely controlled by (as David puts it) “a river in South America.” The Market Street Book Club is open and running online. Subscribers choose from a carefully curated selection of books every month. It’s the first digital step in a project that both men hope will one day evolve into a brick-and-mortar operation.

“Nobody wants things to stop there. We want a bookstore, we want to be part of this bigger community, part of a local literary scene.” - David Teague, professor, University of Delaware

Brothers Rob and Chris Buccini grew up in the Little Italy section of Wilmington, but Market has been their de facto home for the last decade. Their company, the Buccini/ Pollin Group, has been at the forefront of many of Market’s major revitalization projects – the renovated Queen theater, restaurants like La Fia, Merchant Bar and Stitch House Brewery, and living spaces like the Residences at Rodney Square and the MKT apartments.

Next year we will see some of their biggest openings yet: A 12,000-square-foot, $3.5 million food hall inside the Dupont Building. The 231-unit Residences at Mid-Town Park just a block off Market. New restaurants. New people—a new Market.

#LIVE

MARKET STREET MUSIC

#EXPERIENCE

CURRENT SITUATION:

2018 Delaware History Makers Award honoring Sam and Mariah Calagione “A Delaware Tradition: Local Brewing, Dogfish Head, and the Nation’s Best Craft Beer” 6 p.m., April 19, 2018 | The Queen Theater, Delaware History Museum and Old Town Hall

LIVE MEET TASTE SHOP EXPERIENCE

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