More vendor, customer space at refurbished Gordon market

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MORE than 2,000 vendors will use the spaces available at the new K30 million market at Gordon following its opening yesterday but security will be tight.
City manager Bernard Kipit said it was not restricted to any one particular group of people.
“This is a provincial market for everyone in Port Moresby and not for one specific group,” Kipit said.
“It is available to anyone who meets the market requirements or the vendors’ association criteria to qualify for a space to sell their produce.”
It was co-funded by City Hall and the New Zealand government.
The double-storey building has space for more than 2,000 vendors.
It has customer parking spaces, security booths, an administration office and a theatre.
It has 24 closed circuit television cameras with a control room surveillance. Its gate will be manned by a security company.
Kipit said there were 1,100 spaces for vegetable sellers, 100 stalls for second-hand clothing businesses, 50 stalls for the sale of cooked food, a loading and unloading zone, and 55 customer parking spaces.
An electronic fee payment system will be used by vendors to pay their K5 fee.
Governor Powes Parkop said the market would lift the profile of the area known for criminal activities. “One of the main reason we made this massive investment is to change the bad perception,” Parkop said.

10 comments

  • Look at the faces.

    I don’t think other ethnic group will benefit by selling their products there.

    • It will be the usual sad case every where a new market is opened in the city, the indigenous people of Central/NCD will again be losers and definitely be pushed to the edges of the market if they are fortunate to secure a stall. They would even be manipulated on what price to set on their hard-earned crops and fresh produce. Just look at the desperate faces here – majority of whom are definitely not Papuans. Market should be divided into two sections. One for vendors that grow local garden produce within NCD or Central and another for vendors selling imports from other provinces into the city.

  • These are business minded group, they are hungry to do business, you should have the same mind set to be a part of that group…if we sit back and watch, we can not take back PNG. Our vision today is How we can take back the country…Leaders wont do it for you, they can only provide the guidance..you take the lead.

  • In order to take back PNG, We must first take back our selves from negativity.
    Set our focus on what We can do to become better individuals, rid ourselves of vanity and expend our minds beyond Ethnicity. Reframe from being prejudice but instead offer encouragement to one and other. Only than, We can together move to conquering Bigger and Greater things for our Nation and its People.

    This is Our Country and Our Time.

  • Marketing is one of the key tool in becoming more independent in financial matters, I really appreciate the City hall initiatives with the support of the New Zealand Government to build this wonderful market which will cater for vendors who will sell their produced to earn a living.

    Thank you City Hall once again.

  • Thumps Up to the City Hall and The New Zealand Gov’t for changing the stereotypical perspective of Gordons then as Petty crime hub to have a State -of- Art Market in the city. Lets appreciate it and genuinely adhere to the guidelines for the use of the facility. Powes Pakop deserves praises.

  • A massive investment by City Hall & NZ govt. Truly will serve the bull of the population in PNG. The onus now is with us PNGn to take ownership over the market facilities for the good of the generation to come.

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