Everything you need to know about the market’s history, schedule, and upcoming events.
Northwest Marketplaces President Ryan Reiter jest that he grew up on Seattle street corners and in parking mint . His parent , Jon and Candace Hegeman , founded theFremont Sunday Market , the second longest - running market in King County after Pike Place Market , and Ballard Farmers Market when Reiter was just a child . From that upbringing , he has a slew of eclectic “ aunts and uncle , ” small vendor and business enterprise owners who became family .
In 2010 , Reiter returned from Los Angeles to rejoin his family businessNorthwest Marketplaces , which develop under his leadership from out-of-door market and programming to admit young outcome like Mobile Food Rodeo , Trucktoberfest , Taco Libre Showdown , the Seattle Street Food Festival , and more . It also oversees theSeattle Night Market , a monthly event that ’s one of thecoolest thing to do in Seattle justly now .
“ The goal was to witness fun ways to have off - the - cuff curbside discoveries for local of what we like to call ‘ chefprenuers , ’ people who are crowing on passion and idea , but did n’t have the budget to go into a brick and mortar right off , ” said Reiter .
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One of those “ chefprenuers ” include Sam Dangol fromKathmandu MomoCha . Dangol worked alongside his wife at the Fremont Sunday Market , where she sold imported Nepalese clothing and craft item . Dangol submit his estimation to Reiter of starting a food business centered around Nepali street intellectual nourishment and Himalayan momo dumplings . Kathmandu MomoCha began in 2019 as a little stall at the same marketplace and grow to include a larger John Wilkes Booth and food motortruck , operating at the Seattle Night Market , University Farmers Market , and offering frozen dumplings for orderliness and livery .
“ The Seattle Night Market is one of the best markets in Seattle , ” Dangol pronounce . “ I have n’t see that many people gather in one place receive a good time with good intellectual nourishment and music . That is something that is very important . It represent a big role . A lot of mass come out so all the small line get an chance to show what they have . We have both our craft and our food to put up a mixed bag for people to experience and bribe . ”
The conception for Seattle Night Market was bear from a collaborationism with the Chinatown - International District Business Improvement Area ( CIDBIA ) to create events concentrate on around intellectual nourishment trucks . In 2015 , as Reiter and his squad were working to produce a similar program for the South Lake Union neck of the woods , they learn it as an opportunity to hearten and include the night market concept as part of the SLU Saturday Markets program . He drew on international open - breeze market for divine guidance .
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“ You see this in Europe ; there is a Brobdingnagian priority to elevate walkable neighborhoods , to rethink public spaces . We look at ourselves as community accelerators , activating community of interests squares . This is where you may get out of your auto , take the air around , see your neighbour , and really get a better sense of your metropolis just by finger included , by feeling like it ’s your blank space as well , ” say Reiter .
In 2019 , the team moved the Night Market to the Magnuson Park Hangar 30 , an indoor space that would allow these case to continue during cold weather months with more space and skillful parking accommodations . It would seem then that there was nothing to kibosh it from becoming one of the largest , most hoped-for events in the city until COVID came .
“ We are unique now that we ’re 100 % sustainable . We are power by the the great unwashed , ” Reiter point out proudly .
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Their freshly sustainable good example mean greater freedom for his squad to curate graphic , live music , and even programming based on direct feedback from attender . In an effort to ensure safety protocols , the team rebranded the markets to be a 21 + result . Its newly reopened October Night Market drew over 3,000 attendee and since then , a majority of its vendors report a 15 to 23 % increase in sales .
“ What we earn was that if you do n’t try something , you ’re just as big off . It ’s life-sustaining to not only your endurance but for micro and small byplay to have a venue , ” order Reiter , who also pointed to attempt by participating trafficker to pin and adjust and to residential area members who volunteered . “ Everybody realized we were in this same pool . Everybody needs to have as many opportunities to get out , promote , and celebrate . Your family patronage is just like anybody else ’s . We did n’t require anybody to feel like they could n’t do it . ”
He equate some of the effects of COVID on minuscule business to the dot com clangor of 2008 to 2009 . Reiter see the beginning of a come out - up revival with a boom in entrepreneurial attempt , added focal point on handmade or vintage items , and even brick - and - trench mortar line of work propel back to a curbside shopfront .
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await optimistically to the warm months , he paints a picture of the night food market with the airdock doors left wide open letting in the warm summer gentle wind , and attendees walk in and out freely with drunkenness in hand enjoying alive music until the sun go under . The Night Market will stay monthly at the Hangar with one exclusion — it will return on July 16 to the SLU Saturday Market where it commence as a proxy for the Seattle Street Food Festival .
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