The Mayor and City Council is currently examining several options to relocate vendors who ply their trade along the city streets.

During a Council meeting today, Mayor Alfred Mentore said the Council is looking to create a “Greens market” for Robb Street vendors, who were recently removed from around Yhip’s Bakery at the corner of Alexander and Robb Streets following a High Court order.

The Council is looking at a location between Orange Walk and Cummings Street to relocate the vendors as a pilot project, and will facilitate drive through shopping.

The Mayor said once successful, the pilot project will be replicated around the city. The Council has already submitted feasibility studies to the Government for the construction of spaces for vendors.

“The feasibility studies that we would have provided for Bourda Market that speaks about going up 3-4 stories that study is with the government with them to treat with so that we will figure out how we will remove or reduce vending along regent and other streets where we will deal with the enforcement, but the development will ensure plenty of spaces in that four story building that will give options to reduce vending along the different streets,” the Mayor said.

In Central Georgetown, Mayor Mentore said the Council is proposing to increase the size of the Stabroek market, with similar plans highlighted for the vendors’ bazaar and the vendors’ arcade.

“Those are plans that are before government, those were studies that were already done and things that were already approved by us a council to do with the city,” the Mayor said.

He said while the Council has the ideas, it does not have the funds to facilitate the planned expansion, and new areas for city markets and new vending areas.

Last year, the Government budgeted more than $2.7 Billion for the upgrades of city markets and vending spaces, but not much work has been done on that initiative although it should have been undertaken by the Government itself.

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