New market to be built on Bois de Rose Avenue |12 February 2018

Cabinet recently approved a proposal for the construction of an additional market for the sale of fruit, vegetables and other miscellaneous items.

The new market will be located next to the STC hypermarket on Bois De Rose Avenue.

This decision came after vendors who were using the market adjacent to the Sir Selwyn Selwyn Clarke market in Victoria were asked to move as the owner of the place had regained his property and had plans for new developments there.

The principal secretary for infrastructure Yves Choppy stated the new Bois de Rose market will cater for 40 stalls for fruit and vegetable sellers and 25 stalls for vendors of miscellaneous.

“The project will see the construction of a new market north of the Bois de Rose Hypermarket where there currently is a man-made marsh. The site development area is around 6000 square metres, on which the proposal is to build a covered market with a floor area of around 2000 square metres,” he said.

He added that such facility will also cater for street vendors and miscellaneous items.

“The facility will have its own sanitary facilities for public and staff. The area will require backfilling and construction of drainage network; it would be accessed through the entrance to the hypermarket,” he said.

Such project will benefit the street vendors and vegetable sellers as it will resolve the issue of appropriate location for them (especially street vendors) to continue their operations; provide better and increased facilities for vegetable sales which will support the local agriculture trade and most important improve traffic circulation in Victoria by re-locating these trade activities in a more easily accessible venue.

The project is expected to start by the middle of the year.