Republic Square, the downtown Austin park at Fourth and Guadalupe streets that serves at the site for the Saturday SFC Farmers’ Market Downtown, has officially reopened to the public.

For a over a year, farmers market vendors and market-goers have had to gather around the park’s perimeter and at the U.S. Federal Courthouse steps while the green space itself was closed off to the public and under construction. The gates that had been surrounding the park came down this evening.

The park is also the site of CapMetro’s busiest bus stop.

HAPPENING NOW: The construction fences are being removed. Republic Square is now open to the public! pic.twitter.com/JaIYazMeie

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