When it opened 20 years ago, the Main Street Market was a cornerstone accomplishment of Plan Baton Rouge, the mid-’90s master plan that triggered a multiyear revitalization of then-languishing downtown. Now the state-owned food hall will see a major update, a long-awaited investment that organizers have hoped for since 2013. Big River Economic and Agricultural
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Main Street Market, the city’s first urban food hall, will undergo a $1 million upgrade early next year but existing tenants worry about the construction impact.
