[Accrs] NorCal Night Market

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

I gave up trying to get in.  My bad for not asking Candice if there were 
any conflicts last night.  She probably would have told us to stay away.

Gary


On 7/28/2018 9:52 AM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society 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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