Some nominal cleaning of the empress market is going on currently. Hopefully, the CDGK will shift the wholesale market out of this beautiful colonial public structure and away from the city center.
Yasmeen Lari (Lari Associates) were given the contract on renovating the Empress Market by KMC back in the early 1990's. The plan was to have a vast pedestraianized, vehicle-free square in a most congested central district, with Empress Market (c. 1888) as its focal point. The surrounding existing shops would be housed in a sunken development, around open-to-sky atriums, at the rear of the historic structure. The project was to be completed in 1996, but never materialized.
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