Portland’s downtown Saturday Market is open for business

Customers flock to Portland Saturday Market after its reopening in mid-April 2021. The market had been only open June – September in 2020. Vendors used to sell to customers from March through most of December.

Courtesy Howie Bierbaum

Before the pandemic Portland’s Saturday Market was open weekends from March through most of December. But the outdoor market’s vendors have suffered from closures during the pandemic. Executive director Howie Bierbaum says all told the market was only open 22% of its usual run last year. Now the market is open for business again, although just on Saturdays. Still, about a third of vendors haven’t returned. We hear from Bierman and Dagny Haug, owner of Bonus Pants about weathering the pandemic and how Portland Saturday Market is planning for the rest of the year.

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