There’s room on Kaua’i for big business and the little guys. Just ask the entrepreneurs who sell their wares at the weekly farmers market at Kukui Grove Center. The expansion of the Sears store at the mall squeezed the market
There’s room on Kaua’i for big business and the little guys. Just ask the entrepreneurs who sell their wares at the weekly farmers market at Kukui Grove Center.
The expansion of the Sears store at the mall squeezed the market out of its regular parking lot location, which Sears needed for its customers.
Curtains for the marketeers? Not at all. They, mall management and Sears officials solved the problem by shifting the market just inside one of the pedestrian entrances to the shopping center. From there, the vendors’ booths stretch well into the open-air interior of the mall.
The farmers market at Kukui Grove, along with the ones at Kilauea, Hanalei, Vidinha Stadium, Koloa, Hanalei, Kapa’a and Hanapepe are vital slices of local commerce and color. They all deserve a place on the island. And thanks to efforts like that at the mall, they do.
