United Fresh Director of Membership Miriam Miller traveled to South Philadelphia Tuesday to join the celebration of the Philadelphia Regional Produce Market's 50th Anniversary, as well as to tour the site of the new market facility.

Celebration attendees viewed a photographic and video history of the Galloway Street location, which currently serves 500 customers an hour and supplies produce as far north as Canada and as far south as the Carolinas.  The group was then led on a tour of the market’s new Essington Avenue site.  Expected to open in the fall of 2010, the new market will offer 667,000 square feet of refrigerated space.

"Our members on the market are pleased to be celebrating fifty years of service to the City of Philadelphia at the Galloway Street location, but are thrilled at what the new market facility will offer their businesses," said Miller.  "The unique design of the new facility will enhance companies’ abilities to maintain the cold chain and monitor traffic."