Street Fair Business Making Its Fargo Debut

Fargo Street Fair vendors spent most of their Wednesday preparing their stands for the fair.

“We’re gonna have about 300 different vendors. They’re basically artists and marketplace vendors, so you’ll be able to find all different types of arts,” Mike Hahn, President and CEO of the Downtown Community Partnership, said.

Some vendors have been here for quite some time.

“It’s about my fourteenth year,”, Oliver Regal, owner of Ollie’s Crab Fritters, said.

Others are taking Broadway Avenue for the first time.

“I was at the show in Brookings, South Dakota and so I traveled on up to Fargo here, and I had gotten in. This is like, the big one,” Lisa Smith Parker, owner of Garden Cards and More said.

Lisa’s company specializes in name pictures.

They can be curated for someone based on a special event, such as graduation, or represent a family bond, a bond that helped her start her business when her grandmother turned 90.

“And it’s all the family members in the background,” Smith Parker says as she shows off her work.

“I thought what do I get her? She has everything,” she added. “And I thought, yes she does have everything, she has her family.”

She brought the gift to her grandmother’s birthday party, where it was well–received by guests.

More than ten years later, she’s still crafting.

The gates at the fair will open Thursday morning at 10 a.m.

Saturday is the last day to attend the fair.