CEDAR RAPIDS NewBo City Market is revamping empty vending spaces to make them safer and more appealing in time for new businesses to move in.
With the pandemic causing businesses to close up shop at the Market, Julie Parisi, NewBo City Market’s director of business development, said the organization was able to take a closer look at the empty areas.
Organizers decided the spaces needed an update, including fortifying walls and fixing wiring and plumbing.
There generally is less foot traffic around this time of year, Parisi said, so the timing worked out.
“Having those businesses gone, and the spaces vacant kind of really showed us some of the deterioration that has happened with high volume businesses being in there for so many years,” Parisi said.