The downtown corner occupied by the Salem Farmers Market is humming on a Saturday morning as shoppers comb through tables loaded with fresh-picked produce and local baked goods.
Just a stone’s throw away, a team has been working to restore the original copper-trimmed storefront of a building that will be home to the city’s first downtown brewery.
Close by sits the long-vacant West Salem Body Shop building, where dozens of people recently gathered for a forum with a developer who plans to revive the circa-1920s structure.
