Easy print (8.5x14) retail directory of the Florida Market

In preparation for the Florida Market retail tour tomorrow, as part of WalkingTown DC, designer Christopher Taylor Edwards has prepared an 8.5x14 (print on both sides) map and directory of the market.

In the past we have given out an 11x17 version of the prototype sign that we have, which is 32x48 inches, the same size as the wayfinding-cultural interpretation signs that have been erected around the city. But the text is too small and it doesn't really work in a black and white print.

This version is still designed in color but prints fairly well in black and white.

Florida Market Directory Handout

Florida Market tour this weekend

Walking Town DC, the twice yearly weekend set of walking or bicycling tours of places around the city, which is organized by CulturalTourismDC, is scheduled for this coming weekend, Saturday September 19th and Sunday September 20th.

I am leading two tours, one of the Florida Market on Saturday, and an H Street mostly alley tour on Sunday.

Explore Florida Market/Capital City Market
Saturday, September 19
11 am - 1 pm
Meet outside New York Ave-Florida Ave-Gallaudet U Metro station
Florida Avenue exit (Red line)
End at Litteri’s Italian Deli, 517 Morse Street, NE

Market tour this Saturday

In September and April, CulturalTourismDC sponsors WalkingTownDC, an open house of sorts featuring tours around the city. This month, it's on Saturday September 20th and Sunday September 21st.

Richard Layman, Elise Bernard, and Ken Firestone will be doing a tour of the Florida Market. (If you want to meet us for breakfast, meet at K-Young's at 8 am...) The tour meets at the North exit of the New York Avenue (really Florida Avenue) Metro Station at 9 am. Paul Pascal, of the Market Property Owners and Merchants Association, will also be speaking about current development proposals.

We will be passing out a black and white 11x17 version of these documents:

-- Florida Market Map & Directory
-- Florida Market History Sign

although I don't know if the map side will be the "final" version as we are still debating some changes, which are in process.

Greater Greater Washington produces a very usable visible schedule of the Walking Town tours. See the entry: Fall WalkingTown DC visual schedule.

Tour and stuff

In February, we did a tour of the market with not quite 40 people in attendance. I haven't posted any photos, but as always it was a great experience.

There is another tour coming up Saturday April 25th as part of the Walking Town DC set of tours sponsored by CulturalTourismDC, and this time we will have a map and some information to pass out... and somehow, we'll put a link up to that soon-to-be-created document here.

Anyway, one of the people who came on the tour took her boyfriend to Florida Market this past weekend. He's French, and because he had never seen a market district in the U.S., he believed that such didn't exist here, unlike in France and the rest of Europe. He was ecstatic. (Now we have to take him to the Strip District in Pittsburgh.)

Sarah said that the two bags of fruit and vegetables they bought at Mexican Fruit cost $7.

Market tour 4/21

We will be conducting a tour of the Florida Market on Saturday 4/21 as part of Cultural Tourism DC's Walking Town program.

Maybe as a dry run, we'll schedule one for 4/14 too. (Both Elise and I are very busy though.)