Commercial Construction & Renovation

MAY-JUN 2016

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T he smell of cooking oils, onions and garlic and smoke can stick to you like Velcro. That seemed the overall sentiment of the patrons, especially professionals, who frequented the restaurants that help defne Columbus, Ohio's beloved North Market area. The stigma of "smelling like the market" was just too great to risk, they claimed. Oddly, the smells and rich airborne aromas at North Mar- ket are an important part of the generously sensual experience that customers – more than a million each year – have come to enjoy. The cultural mix, the wide variety of vendor offerings, the colors, taste and textures commingle with the wafting fragrance of it all. "That mix of goodness is highly prized here," says Rick Harrison Wolfe, the market's executive di- rector. "Though, over the years, our ventilation woes became something we needed to deal with." And there's plentiful "goodness" in the mix at North Market – Best of the Wurst, a mix of fne brats with Bangkok cuisine, The Fish Guys, which offers some of the freshest, line-caught fsh in town, and Holy Smoke BBQ, just to name a few of the many food vendors. Clearing the By John Vastyan Columbus, Ohio's beloved North Market gets a ventilation makeover air 94 COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION & RENOVATION — MAY : JUNE 2016

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