Still here …
A group of former Sunday vendors were, as I understand it, in talks with Arlington county board member Mary Hynes about assuming operation of the Sunday market.
Board member Hynes had earlier promised to “do whatever possible” to help the Sunday market reopen. Evidently that promise consisted of not returning phone calls and instead having administrative assistants eventually refer that group of vendors to Arlington county zoning. The staff of Arlington county zoning apparently weren’t even told to expect the call, and (again, as I understand it) the efforts to revive the Sunday market have been indefinitely abandoned, as Arlington county zoning refered callers back to the offices of the Arlington county board (I think the technical term for this is “passing the buck”).
Mary Hynes and Arlington Economic Development staffer J. Hunter Moore should be ashamed of themselves for allowing the incompetence of the Clarendon Alliance, especially “Executive Director” Susan Anderson, to scuttle what had been a vibrant and bustling part of the Courthouse neighborhood.
I had been holding off updates to this site (and other efforts) in order not to complicate the efforts of those other vendors. Now that those efforts have effectively been killed by Mary Hynes and the other members of the Arlington county board failing to keep their promises (and doing a poor job of serving their communities), I will more regularly update this site.
Oh, and I should probably mention that I had nothing to do with those efforts mentioned above. The Arlington county board, especially member Hynes, have convnced me that they really do not care about the “urban village” they continue to pay lipservice to. I won’t have anything to do with them.
