Downtown Food Vendors Relocated to Franklin Avenue
Council approves moving temporary vendor locations to beneath the Haymaker Parkway overpass
Mobile food vendors who set up shop in the evenings in downtown Kent are going to lose their prime spots starting in 2013. Kent City Council voted this week to relocate the designated locations for vendors with the category A license from five spots spread throughout downtown to one location on Franklin Avenue beneath the Haymaker Parkway overpass. Kent Law Director Jim Silver said city officials started to consider relocating the category A vendors after problems with towing cars from designated vending spots, such as the space near the intersection of Main and Water streets in the middle of downtown. "Issues began as soon as we actually had vendors start setting up downtown," Silver said. "Vendors would show, the parking spaces …
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Donald S
4:55 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
Chip, this is nothing more than Ruller moving these venders in hopes people eat and visit these brand new buildings they just spent a ton of money on that could fail according to Dave Ruller. Heres a better solution, keep everything as is, 4 or 5 spots is NOT harming anything downtown in these evening hours. It is nice of Dave Ruller to kick out a local kent guy like Dawgfather. I am so sick of … more ›