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Serious options for a $14 million Madison Public Market now include it being part of a potential redevelopment of a shopping plaza at the corner of First Street and East Washington Avenue on the East Side.

So far, the city has envisioned the core market at a renovated Fleet Services Building at 200 N. First St., next to the shopping plaza. But Fleet Services isn’t scheduled to move from the facility until 2017 with building improvements for the public market in 2018 and an opening in early 2019.

A new draft implementation strategy sees the Fleet Services Building as the first option. But it also outlines alternatives under which the city would forge a partnership to build the market as the anchor tenant of a larger private redevelopment of the Washington Plaza shopping center, 1858 E. Washington Ave., or to get the market started as part of the redevelopment and later expand it to the Fleet Services Building.

The four-acre plaza site has far greater visibility, with its main frontage along East Washington Avenue, and new construction “could be faster, better and cheaper,” the 10-page draft strategy says.

“It’s something we ought to explore,” city food and alcohol policy director Mark Woulf said. “We do know we have to figure this out by the end of 2016.”