The James Beard Foundation has teamed up with Jamestown, the food hall operators behind Chelsea Market and Brooklyn’s Industry City, and Google, to launch a new 16,000-square-foot food hall with more than a dozen vendors at Pier 57 in New York City, reports Eater.
Slated to open in fall of 2022, the hall will showcase “the rich culinary and cultural diversity of New York City,” the foundation’s CEO Clare Reichenbach told Eater.
Pulling from its network of chefs and restaurant industry workers involved with various James Beard programming, like its Women’s Leadership Program and Chefs Boot Camp, the foundation will play a large role in shaping the overall mix of food vendors and have full control over one of the vendor stalls where it plans to showcase a rotating number of chefs involved in James Beard’s programs.
The nonprofit will also help pick the 17 other food vendors.
“The center of gravity is absolutely New York City,” Reichenbach said. “This is a space to serve the local community.” Full Story
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