Rethinking the community marketplace

FORT COLLINS – Everyone acknowledges it’s still more dream than reality, but supporters of a community marketplace in downtown Fort Collins say they believe they’re getting closer to getting the proposed project off the ground.

The concept of a one-stop location for locally grown produce and a larger home for the Fort Collins Food Co-Op has been a recurring topic of discussion for more than a decade between the Fort Collins Downtown Development Authority, local food producers and the Food Co-Op.

In its latest iteration, the project would be located on a two-acre site that would encompass the Northern…