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40 REPORT Market Times • February 2016 “This will be a transformation,” he said. “We have to complete the work by September and the market will look very different when it is done.” Generally the traders have welcomed the investment, although there has been some concern about “gentrification”and the need to retain the traditional feel of the market. Ian said it would be a very good thing for the market. And Shaun Holmes, who has run The Pie Shop Deli Delicious for 10 years, said: “We need this investment. Footfall is not good and if nothing was done this market would be finished within a decade.” There is no doubt that the next six or seven months will be difficult as the work is carried out around the traders, with some opportunities to trade outside. There are currently 50 traders in the market including a number in the basement of the market — The Vaults — an unusual cellar maze of units in what was originally a bonded warehouse. This number will increase to 60 and Nick said he would eventually like to see new market stalls outside the market hall, as well as innovations such as specialist vintage markets on a Sunday. “We have to do everything to attract new shoppers to the market,” he said. Ian Hutchinson took over butchers D J Horsley in Scarborough Market four years ago but has worked in the market for 39 years. He welcomes the redevelopment and is looking forward to better times One innovation, which brings market shopping into the electronic age, is an online market which allows people to log on to one website and order items from different market businesses from the same site. The site is the brainchild of experts from Hull University, which has a campus in Scarborough. But the main selling point of the market will be the quality and provenance of its food offering, says Nick. “We do also have some excellent non-food businesses,” he said. “But in our application for funding we emphasised the food offering of the market. We already have several wholesaling businesses that have their own vans and deliver food to customers. We want to prick the consciences of local people who know they should really be buying food that is grown or reared in the area where they live, and not imported from miles away.” New traders Jasmine Melville, 26, and her partner, Jack Boston, 27, are aiming to tap into this aspiration with their new artisan Shaun Holmes has run The Pie Shop Deli Delicious on the market for the past ten years. He says without this multi-million pound investment the market would die within the next decade


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