It’s a new winter season for Salt Lake City’s Downtown Farmers Market, with a new venue planned for the weekly gathering of food and craft vendors.
The winter market opens this Saturday, Nov. 15, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the former space of The Leonardo — now called the Civic Center — 209 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City.
The indoor market is scheduled to open each Saturday through April 18.
The market boasts more than 75 vendors this season, offering fresh produce, artisan foods and handmade goods, according to Carly Gillespie, director of Urban Food Connections, the nonprofit that runs it.
Shoppers this winter will also get to weave under the wings of the C-131 cargo plane that used to be part of The Leonardo’s signature “Flight” exhibition, Gillespie noted.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Leonardo and the Salt Lake City Library, photographed in May 2025. The Downtown Farmers Market will open its winter season at The Leonardo's old building — now called the Civic Center — on Nov. 15, 2025.
Parking for the Downtown Farmers Market is available in Library Square’s underground garage, accessible either from the westbound 500 South or eastbound 400 South. (It’s free for two hours, and $1.50 an hour after that.)
Street parking also is available, for $3.50 an hour. And the Library TRAX station sits along the red line, on 400 South at 200 East.
The market accepts EBT cards, Gillespie noted. Organizers this season are offering anyone who receives Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits $10 in market cash after the weeks of uncertainty amid the government shutdown.
The market’s new winter home is likely temporary. In May, the Downtown Alliance announced a deal with the city to revitalize Pioneer Park that included plans for new public market building to house the market year-round.
The former museum is one of several places that’s played host to the winter market, which started as a pop-up in 2014, Gillespie said. For several years it was in the Rio Grande Depot. For the last few, it’s been held in vacant spaces at The Gateway, which a vendor once described to Gillespie as “giving Spirit Halloween” vibes.
The new space is bigger than The Gateway’s, and at the new location, the market can include food trucks, Gillespie said.
The newly dubbed Civic Center had housed the former art-and-science museum from 2011 until The Leonardo’s abrupt closure this summer. Before that, it was the main branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library, from 1964 until the current library building opened in 2003.