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PHILADELPHIA – Reading Terminal Market has welcomed a new culinary experience for locals and visitors with City Food Tours. This guided tour showcases the best…
Like all great cities, Philadelphia is the type of place that you can explore again and again (and again). Perhaps the only thing better than…
City Kitchen Young Friends Happy Hour and Taste of the Market! Join us for an evening of RTM lite bites, local beer, wine and socializing inside…
City Food Tours is the exclusive tour partner of the Reading Terminal Market. Come taste the Market’s history, hear stories of some of the 80+…
Kismet Bialys owners, Alex and Jacob Cohen, are known for their pandemic-born pop-up turned city-wide sensation, Kismet Bagels. The bialy shop sells Polish bread rolls…
Passover items are not Kosher unless specified. Giuntas Prime Shop – Brisket, Poultry Godshall’s Poultry – Poultry Hershel’s East Side Deli – Matzo Ball Soup,…
Shop Reading Terminal Market for all your Easter Meal Needs. The Market will be closed on Easter Sunday, April 9th. Beiler’s Bakery – Assorted Cakes,…
Looking for the perfect gift? A Reading Terminal Market gift card is a great option for anyone! Reading Terminal Market gift cards are accepted at…
AMAZULU CAREDA’S CARIBBEAN CUISINE DE’VILLAGE LITTLE MARRAKESH BAZAAR MA LESSIE’S CHICKEN & WAFFLES O.K. PRODUCE REALLY REEL GINGER SWEET NINA’S SWEET’S T’S BAKERY THE SUSTAINABLE…
11AM – 12PM in Arch Court
Reading Terminal Market wishes you a Happy Lunar New Year Join us for a A Lion Dance in the market on Saturday, January 28 at…
$1 Holiday Cookies all day at retail locations, free nationwide delivery, and customer prize packs with free cookies for lucky shoppers at Reading Terminal Market….
Enter now – December 25 The sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the continental United States where not prohibited by law, who are eighteen…
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Proceeds from this important event allow Reading Terminal Market to fund its mission, pay overhead & maintenance costs, and make improvements that will benefit future…
You’ll see a familiar Philadelphia institution on PHL17 every week as part of our new partnership, Magras at the Market! Reporter Jayna Magras will be…
Also available: Goose, Capon, Turducken, and Turkey Breast See Poultry Merchants for details Cooked Turkeys available from TheOriginalTurkey.com
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Updated: September 2022. General Reading Terminal Market strives to ensure that its services are accessible to people with disabilities. Reading Terminal Market has invested a…
SOLD OUT Party for the Market is an exclusive, highly anticipated, annual Gala – an after-hours transformation of Reading Terminal Market into a lively evening…
Sparrow’s is a third generation family business, specializing in All Natural, Gluten Free snack foods and gifts made with the most premium ingredients. We’ll feed…
40+ Reading Terminal Market merchants deliver within a 10 mile radius through our delivery partner, Mercato. These merchants offer nationwide shipping Bassetts Ice Cream Famous 4th…
Reading Terminal Market celebrated its 130th year of operation
The streetscape outside the Market was enhanced to create a curbless “festival street” aimed at increasing public use of the 1100 block of Filbert St.
Reading Terminal Market operated as an essential business during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic ensuring Philadelphians had continued access to fresh, affordable food.
The Market Celebrates its 125th Anniversary on February 22nd.
The Reading Terminal Market celebrated 120 years of bringing fresh and local food to Philadelphia.
The Reading Terminal Market was 100% occupied, a result of growth in downtown residential population and tourism.
Non-profit Reading Terminal Market Corporation created to manage the market.
The adjacent Pennsylvania Convention Center opened and brought new customers to the market.
The Food Trust was founded as a program of the Reading Terminal Market
Pennsylvania Convention Center bought the Reading Terminal Market.
Supporters of the market organized The Reading Terminal Market Preservation Fund to ensure that the market retained its character as the convention center project developed.
The new Market East Station with rail and subway services connecting all major transportation lines opened underneath the market.
The last train left the Reading Terminal.
The market was 60% occupied and had become a center for charitable and seasonable food events and impromptu piano concerts.
The Reading Company emerged from bankruptcy, bought out the lease, and began to invest in the market.
Reading Terminal Market was only 20% occupied.
The Reading Company leased the Market to a real estate speculator 15 years. He raised rents driving out 30 of the 56 remaining merchants.
Reading Company declared bankruptcy and no longer invested in the upkeep of the market.
1970-1980: Preservationists who wanted to save the market battled with those who wanted to demolish it to advance the East Market Redevelopment plan
Informal markets formed around Front and High (Market) Streets near where farmers and fisherman brought their goods from southern New Jersey.
1950 – 1960 New local and federal regulations intended to improve safety of the food supply increased merchants’ cost of doing business.
Rationing during World War II brought episodic meat and dairy shortages to the nation
The market had 400 phone lines to take call-in orders.
Reading Terminal Market Merchants’ Association celebrated its fourth year in with the Third Food Show and Home -Progress Exposition with 140 exhibitors and 60,000 attendees.…
The Reading Company invested in new doorways and six refrigerated show windows along Twelfth Street.