A new farmers market, now being constructed on the 1000 block of Huger street, will open April 16, it has been announced.

The new market will offer farmers of the area the marketing opportunity which was intended for the city’s retail market which has just been removed from the middle of Assembly street. E. W. Gibson of Cayce, the building, has announced.

The planning for the new market is based on careful studies of the practical needs, not only of the market itself, but of the customers, according to the announcement. Ample hard-surfaced parking facilities, lighting, telephone services and rest rooms are to be provided.

A number of stalls in the new market have already been reserved by farmers from Cameron, Blaney, Gilbert, North, Lexington, Swansea and all parts of Richland county.

Mr. Gibson and member of the real estate firm, Elliott-McCarley company, who will be managers of the property, are pleased with the location. They point out that Huger street is a through artery of traffic. The market can be reached from the northern section of the city through a minimum of traffic by way of Elmwood avenue or Calhoun street, thence to Huger; and that it can be reached from the southeastern section of Columbia by way of Blossom street, soon to be paved in that area, and that with the completion of the new Blossom street bridge over the Congaree, the bridge will be convenient to resident of West Columbia and Cayce.