100 Hanover Street at Haymarket Station
Wednesday – Saturday 8:00am – 6:00pm
The Boston Public Market is an indoor, year-round marketplace featuring 35 New England artisans and food producers housed under one roof offering fresh foods, prepared meals, crafts, and specialty items. Residents and visitors alike can find seasonal, locally sourced food from Massachusetts and New England, including fresh produce, meat and poultry, eggs, dairy, seafood, baked goods, specialty items, crafts, and prepared breakfast, lunch, and dinner options. Everything sold at the Market is produced or originates in New England, as the seasons allow.
The Market is a civic, community-building space for farmers, fishers, food entrepreneurs, neighbors, customers, and partners who come together around the common culture of food. We create opportunity for small businesses to thrive, and nourish our community with experiences, conversation, and education about public health and the impact of buying local food. Year-round festivals, workshops, cooking classes, and tours create an engaging, educational experience and a vibrant environment for everyone.
The Boston Public Market Association, a registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, developed and operates the Market with public impact goals to support: economic development, New England food system resilience, public health and education, affordability, and access. Development of the Boston Public Market in 2015 was a partnership between the Boston Public Market Association, individual and corporate donors, foundations, the City of Boston, and the project’s seed funder, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The Boston Public Market, located at 100 Hanover Street, Boston, MA 02108, is open Wednesday— Saturday, 8:00am — 6:00pm, year-round.
*Select vendors only
Our mission is to support New England producers, provide fresh, healthy food to consumers of all income levels, educate the public about local sourcing and nutrition, and build a community around food.
History
In 2001, the Boston Public Market Association was formed by a dedicated coalition of food lovers, food producers, and state and city officials. After years of work advocating for the development of a public market in Boston, they gained the support of elected officials and helped identify a permanent site for the market. In 2011, state and city officials settled on a location for the market on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, directly above the Haymarket MBTA station.
The Market spans the ground floor of 100 Hanover Street, which also contains the Boston RMV branch, entrances to the Haymarket MBTA station, vent stacks for the Interstate-93 tunnel, and a parking garage. The building and the Market’s location had been vacant for over 12 years. This location is part of Boston’s emerging Market District, along with the Haymarket open-air fruit and vegetable market and the historic Blackstone Block. After the Boston Public Market Association raised $13 million for the design, permitting, and construction of the Market, oversaw an on-time construction process, and brought together many of the region’s top food producers, the Market opened on July 30, 2015.
Become a vendor
The Boston Public Market (BPM) is seeking local businesses interested in becoming permanent vendors at the market. The indoor market is designed to showcase the variety and quality of food grown, produced, or caught in Massachusetts and throughout New England. This opportunity will offer prime retail space for local producers in the heart of Boston’s emerging Market District. Applications are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.
If you are interested in applying, CLICK HERE and fill out our Intent to Apply Form.
Awards
Staff
Director of Community Engagement & Vendor Recruitment
CEO
Director of Operations
Board of Directors
Kurt Wm. Hemr
Attorney, Skadden Arps
Jan Saglio
Senior Financial Advisor, Boston Collegiate Charter School
Sam Thakarar
Clerk
Partner, Bain and Company
Lauren K. Stein
Cookbook Author and Journalist
Dave Clark
Banker
Lisa Sebesta
Board Chair
Founder, Sitari Capital and Managing Partner, Fresh Source Capital
Robert Tuchmann
Retired Partner, WilmerHale
Donald Wiest, Esq.
Attorney, Brennan, Dain, Le Ray, Wiest, Torpy & Garner, P.C.
Marlo Fogelman, Esq.
Principal, marlo marketing
Charles SteelFisher
Founder, Alipes
Charlotte Vena
Director, John W. Henry Family Foundation
Rachel Greenberger
Vice Chair
Food Entrepreneurship Faculty and Director of Food Sol at Babson College
Mary Jo Meisner
Vice Chair
Fellow, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
Board of Advisors
Lauren Abda
Patrick Campbell
Bill Dowling
Peter Gori
Meghan Jasani
Sofiya Klein
Alex Lewin
Louisa Kasdon
Colette Phillips
Jamie Simchik
Sydney Asbury
Kate Cook
Jen Faigel
Joe Hanley
Tom O’Brien
Clare Kelly
Jan Saragoni
Brian Kinney
Ilene Bezahler
Annie Copps
Kendra Foley
Kerry Harrison
Mary Pasciucco
Gus Schumacher
In Memoriam
Jay Blackwell
Chris Douglass
Richard Garver
Tom Jones
Martha Laposata
Mary Beth Pearlberg
Fredi Shonkoff
Boston Public Market Guided Tours
Take a free, one hour, guided tour of the Boston Public Market to learn about our unique story, explore the space, and meet the makers who grow, catch, brew, raise, cultivate, bake, ferment, cook, and harvest their food.
Tours are typically offered Tuesday and Friday mornings at 10am and 11am. Please email tours@bostonpublicmarket.org to confirm availability.
If you would like to schedule a tour outside of these hours, please give us at least one week advance notice so we can do our best to accommodate you.
Tours can accommodate 20 people maximum. Larger groups will be considered on a case-by-case basis and should contact us in advance for scheduling.
Boston Public Market is operated by the 501(c) 3 non-profit Boston Public Market Association. We provide tours free of charge to our community and welcome donations to operate the program.
Boston Public Market Class Field Trips
It is important to our Market community to educate children in order to build good habits and grow a love and understanding of healthy, local food.
Interested in taking your class on a field trip to the Market? Let them meet the farmers, fishers, and food producers and learn how food goes from the farm to their plate. They’ll learn about food sources, production, and nutrition, sample fresh local foods like strawberries and snap peas, and roll-up their sleeves to get in on the action!
Email Carrie DeWitt at cdewitt@bostonpublicmarket.org to schedule a field trip.
Work at the Market
Apply to work with the vendors at the Boston Public Market.
Our vendors are dedicated to showcasing the variety and quality of food grown, produced, and caught in Massachusetts and throughout New England. Farmers, fishers, cheese mongers, bakers, dairymen, flower sellers and specialty food producers all come together under one roof to create a unique, vibrant retail community in the heart of Boston.
Boston Public Market vendors are looking for motivated, passionate, customer service-oriented individuals to represent their businesses as customer service representatives, food preparers, and retailers at the Market.
See what job opportunities are currently available in the market.
Seasonal Markets
The Boston Public Market runs two seasonal farmers markets: Boston Public Market at Dewey Square on The Greenway (Tuesdays & Thursdays, May – November) and Boston Public Market at Seaport (Saturdays, June – September). Products include farm fresh produce; poultry and eggs; cheese and dairy; fish; bread and baked goods; plants and flowers; and an assortment of specialty and prepared foods, including several “grab-and-go” lunch options.
CLICK HERE for the full vendor lineups!
Vendors interested in selling at our 2020 farmers markets can email Carrie DeWitt at cdewitt@bostonpublicmarket.org for an application.
SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
The Boston Public Market will provide year-round access to fresh, healthy food to consumers of all income levels. Boston Public Market vendors are proud to accept SNAP/EBT for all eligible market products.
Massachusetts’ Healthy Incentives Program
The Boston Public Market is proud to participate in the Massachusetts’ Healthy Incentives Program (HIP). This statewide program matches SNAP recipients’ purchases of local fruits and vegetables. SNAP recipients will receive an instant, dollar-for-dollar match credited to their EBT card on eligible purchases made at Boston Public Market produce vendors. The earned incentives can be used right away or saved for future purchases.
The HIP incentive benefit has a monthly cap based on household size:
Household Size: 1-2 persons | HIP monthly cap: $40
Household Size: 3-5 persons | HIP monthly cap: $60
Household Size: 6+ persons | HIP monthly cap: $80
*Note: As of June 1, 2017, the Boston Public Market will no longer distribute nor accept Boston Bounty Bucks coupons.
Parking
The Boston Public Market is located directly above the Haymarket MBTA station (Orange and Green Lines, MBTA bus routes) and three blocks from North Station (Commuter Rail & Amtrak, Orange and Green Lines). Bike parking is located directly outside the Market on the plaza opposite the Greenway. Two Hubway bike share stations are located nearby, on Cross Street across the Greenway and on Congress Street along the side of City Hall.
Directly above the Market is the Parcel 7 (Haymarket) Parking Garage (entrance on Sudbury Street). Boston Public Market vendors validate parking for Parcel 7, with proof of purchase, for a rate of $3 for up to 3 hours. In addition, the Government Center Garage, located at 50 New Sudbury Street, is also next door to the Market (parking not validated).