[Accrs] NorCal Night Market

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

Yes, Phil. Last night was an experience. There are two more nights to go.

We'll have to digest the whole thing.

Let's discuss Friday.

Regards,

Ted

On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 9:52 AM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:

> Message From: Phil Edholm  pedholm at pkeconsulting.com
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> Wow…..Pleasanton was surprised!!!! It seemed that half of the under 30
> Asian population of the Bay Area came out to Pleasanton last night. It is
> open Sat/Sun 3-11 also.
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> The traffic last night was unreal. The attached image is Waze at 10:37
> about traffic around the fairgrounds (all roads are red). Dick said it was
> the worst traffic he had ever seen at the fairgrounds (and he is really
> old). Raises all sorts of interesting questions about first responders
> access and neighborhood safety and resident impact, all key questions in a
> Pleasanton city zoning hearing around building a huge hotel and event
> center that attract even larger events and more traffic congestion and
> impact. Sounds like a major referendum coming.
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> Anyway, the “night market” is scheduled to return to the Alameda Fair
> September 21-23, not sure if it will be as crazy the second time, but we
> may need to discuss parking with the fair folks. We all seemed to be able
> to get in Friday, but with the volume of pedestrians inside the fairgrounds
> on our access paths, I would not be surprised if they limit auto traffic
> for safety concerns for the next one, we should be proactive if we want
> access. We do not want to establish the precedent tht there are event
> typsThe organization that runs this runs similar events in SoCal at the OC
> fairgrounds (Jerome’s alma matter) and Santa Anita. They seem to run every
> couple of months over the summer (three or so). Her is a link to their web
> site:  https://www.norcalnightmarket.com/
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> One discussion is whether opening for one of these could work for us.
> Quite frankly, it is a whole new demographic that probably does not come to
> the fair or the Good Guys. This and the upcoming Pet Fair are events that
> would broaden our demographic.
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> *Phil Edholm*
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