1. Establish a high quality mix of boutique retailers and unique restaurant(s) that include outdoor dining on the ground level, promoting weekday, weekend and evening activity. The City envisions the market hall as a place where singular vendors can come together under one roof to sell their products such as purveyors of artisanal cheeses and charcuterie, a bakery, chocolatier and related confections, wine, locally grown produce, specialty coffee, flowers, organic meats, and other high-quality products.  The City is seeking similar vendors to those found in the Rockridge Market Hall in Oakland, CA, the Oxbow Public Market in Napa, CA, the Ferry Building Marketplace in San Francisco, and The Market in Santa Monica Place.
2.  Provide unique architecture that establishes the building as a landmark.
3.  Create a place-making project that promotes pedestrian activity, provides a new destination where residents, employees, and visitors can shop and dine and complements and protects the surrounding neighborhood.
4.  Foster excellence in urban design and “place-making” by connecting the development, visually, physically and through development programming with the surrounding streets and streetscape with pedestrian plazas and paths.
5.  Develop a low rise sustainable project that achieves LEED standards.

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