I hope you will vote for my idea :)

My idea is based on the Farmers market project that they are doing in Santa Fe NM. http://www.santafefarmersmarket.com/institute/future/

It's a great indoor/outdoor building, room for 150 vendors, would have leaseable office space, a restaurant (like the farmers diner in vermont:http://www.farmersdiner.com/) , community gathering space, a commercial kitchen for those who need one to create value added products, cold storage and root celler, outdoor green space and it is a LEED certified building.

The initial $10,000 would be given directly to a non-profit in Eugene so that the dialog can be moved forward, bringing together the stake holders in the community that would need to have a say and be part of something like this.

With the initial $10,000 a professional facilitator could be hired to start moving the project forward by creating a community dialog to come to a decision on what the best way would be to implement something like this.

Because there has been so much previous dialog and people have not been able to move forward due to their historical differences about the project, I see myself as an impartial instigator, someone who does not have a personal stake in the project so I am the perfect person to bring the idea forward.

I also see a group similar to the Friends of the Library group that finally made the Eugene Library happen
called: Friends of the Farmers Market, to run the capital campaign to make this project a reality here.

Thanks for your time.

Regards,
Erin