DETROIT, MI - Eastern Market is adding a Sunday market for Michigan-made products such as arts and crafts next year, said Dan Carmody, President of Eastern Market Corporation.

Carmody said the organization is hiring someone in August to help put the Sunday market together. He said it will probably officially open after Flower Day in Spring 2014.

Many of the estimated 40,000 visitors that come to Eastern Market in Detroit on Saturdays - currently the only day market is open - come from outside of the city, so when the sprawling open-air space opens up on Sundays next year it will have to have the same impact as the popular Saturday installment, which features food vendors and farmer's products.

While most of its revenues depend on vendors renting space, Eastern Market maintains a balance of making it an attractive destination while still being open enough to meet its financial goals, Carmody said. Opening the market too often could mean it would lose its appeal, and many vendors likely would not be able to set up shop on weekdays.

"Whatever we do, it has to be a destination," Carmody said, adding that a large dinner will be served in Shed 5 to accompany the Sunday market. "For Sunday market to be effective, it has to use the whole market," he added.

In 2011, the market added a Tuesday installment geared toward Detroiters who live in the near vicinity. This year, Eastern Market Tuesdays run July 9 through October 29, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Carmody revealed plans for the Sunday market on Wednesday at McClure's Pickles' headquarters, as the Charter One Foundation announced it has donated another $160,000 to a partner program with Eastern Market called Charter One Growing Communities. Now in its second year, Charter One Growing Communities provides grant money to entrepreneurs, small businesses and urban farmers involved in Detroit's local food industry.

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation added another $50,000 to the program. MEDC President and CEO Mike Finney said the the state has also donated $1 million from its Community Revitalization Program to Eastern Market Corporation to help pay for the $8.1 million restoration of Shed 5.

About $5 million in upgrades have already been done on that project, which is now in its second phase, Carmody said. Most of the repair work has been mechanical, he said. A new kitchen is being added as well.

"When it's done, it will look like Shed 3," he said.

According to its most recent Form 1099 filed with the IRS, the non-profit had $3.2 million in revenues in its fiscal year, ending June 30, 2011, against $2.6 million in expenses.