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The Saskatoon Farmers’ Market membership is set to vote in a week on moving to an industrial area near the airport.

The president of the farmers’ market co-operative board of directors, Adi Ramachandran, confirmed the location and the vote on Friday in response to an inquiry from The StarPhoenix.

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The market’s membership, estimated at about 100 vendors, will vote Nov. 16 on whether they support signing a 10-year lease of part of the Cavendish Building on Koyl Avenue in the Airport Business Area.

The market has been located at River Landing at a former power plant garage since 2007, but the pending closure of the building for repairs and an impasse with the city have sparked the potential move.

“The way we are looking at it from the farmers’ market co-operative perspective is trying to make lemonade out of lemons,” Ramachandran said in an interview.

The farmers’ market now operates three days a week at its current location in the city-owned building. City council wants a tenant that will animate the building six days a week.