Syracuse, N. Y. — Pie’s The Limit, one of the original start-up food vendors at downtown’s Salt City Market, will close next week in preparation for a move into its own space.
The stand, which offers both sweet and savory pies and pastries, is planning to join with The Broom Closet Coffee + Company, a café and artist cooperative, in the new venture. That is expected to open in 2023 in a yet-to-be-announced location.
Pies The Limit’s last day at the Salt City Market will be July 25.
Market officials hope to announce a new vendor for the Pie’s The Limit space by early August, said market manager Adam Sudmann. Negotiations with that vendor are under way, and Sudmann said he expects it will bring the “same vibrancy and mission” to the market as the original group did.
Pie’s The Limit, operated by Fiona Barbour Day, is the first vendor at the market to leave for its own location. It made its debut along with 10 other food vendors when the Salt City Market opened in January 2021 at 484 S. Salina St. (across from the Marriott Syracuse Downtown hotel.)
Like most of the other Salt City Market vendors, it was a new business operated by a first-time entrepreneur. They competed for a spot in the market, which occupies the ground floor of a $22 million four-story building developed and operated by the nonprofit Allyn Family Foundation through its Syracuse Urban Partnership organization..
“It’s a little bittersweet because we went on a once-in-a-lifetime journey of seeing this market be built together, so it’s tough to say goodbye,” Maarten Jacobs, executive director of the Syracuse Urban Partnership, said in a news release. “But, it’s also the whole purpose of this project: to launch successful businesses that radiate through our community and activate different areas of the city.”
Salt City Market officials always expected that some of the vendors might move on or branch out, Sudmann said. But it’s never been a certainty that they would.
“There are so many variables here,” Sudmann said,. “You never really know with start-ups, what will happen in coming years.”
The Allyn Foundation and its Syracuse Urban Partnership organization continue to offer classes for operators of start-up food businesses, Sudmann said. That grew out of a program once operated by Onondaga Community College in a storefront on North Salina Street, where some of the Salt City Market operators got their start.
Day, the Pie’s The Limit owner, could not be reached to elaborate on her plans. According to a news release from Salt City Market, she is bringing her “long-time collaborator and kitchen manager, Roxanne Broda-Blake, in as a partner in the business.
They will continue to make pies and pastries during the transition, with outlets at the Central New York Regional Market and at the two locations of the Syracuse Cooperative Market. One of the co-op locations is inside the Salt City Market, and the other is on Kensington Road just off Westcott Street.
“I think people’s first thought is, ‘Oh, why aren’t you opening immediately?’ Day said in the Salt City Market news release. “And I think one thing we’ve learned from the Salt City Market is that opening a business is a full-time job—it takes a lot of time and hard work. We want to be able to give this new space its due attention without feeling overwhelmed.”
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Don Cazentre writes for NYup.com, syracuse.com and The Post-Standard. Reach him at dcazentre@nyup.com, or follow him at NYup.com, on Twitter or Facebook.
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