Plans for Boston Public Market, a proposed year-round indoor/outdoor food market along the Rose Kennedy Greenway, are progressing slower than anticipated, with no opening date in sight.
The Boston Public Market Association is focused on hiring a new executive director, creating a business plan and finding an architect for the project, which will feature foods from Massachusetts and the rest of New England.
Getting those building blocks in place will help the nonprofit raise the $11 million needed to open the 28,000-square-foot market in a state-owned building on Blackstone Street, association Chairman Brian Kinney said at a Public Market Commission meeting this week.
"We haven't said when we're going to open," Kinney said. "I don't have a crystal ball. I don't want to open prematurely or badly, because you can only open once."
But, Kinney told the commission, "You should have increased confidence that this is going to get done, and it's going to get done well."
The nonprofit had a setback when its executive director, hired last May, left after seven months.
"There was a mismatch," Kinney said. "We ended the relationship as of the end of (2012)."
While Kinney said the woman was experienced in food retail development, the board felt it needed someone with different skills, including strong local relationships.
Meanwhile, the nonprofit's fundraising has yielded "firm," signed commitments for $1.5 million, all but $300,000 of which is from board members.
"It's really a snowball that we've begun to roll down the hill, and it's picking up steam," Kinney said of fundraising, which he'd like to see hit $15 million, so the market can open with an endowment in place. "As we've talked to people, I'm actually pretty confident the support is there."
That sum would be in addition to the $4 million committed by the state, most of which will go toward bringing the building and its systems up to code.
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