Next Clinton Market Night set for Saturday
The new clock at the entrance to the Pearl Alley pedestrian walkway on Market Street helps mark the extensive update of the street, which includes new sidewalks, brick benches, streetlights, and a complete repaving of the roadway. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
The remaining Market Night is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 8, also from 5-8 p.m.
Conducted by the merchants’ group, the Market Night events will include street vendors set up along Market Street, along with food trucks and trailers.
The merchants will stay open late to accommodate the crowds, which could be rather large this year as Market Street comes back to life after a shutdown for major sidewalk reconstruction and other improvements over the past year-and-a-half.
Even though the street won’t be open to vehicular traffic during Saturday’s event, the new sidewalks and other improvements along Market Street are ready to accommodate people on foot.
Visitors are expected to crowd the street just as they did for the Spring Clinch River Antique Festival earlier this month.
Free parking is available in the city’s downtown parking lots, including the large one on Commerce Street and the new one on Main Street across from Knight’s Flowers.
