Hagersville Streetscape Plan

1. Market Square
Design Focus
The Market Square is the area around the County building
generally bounded by Main Street to the west, Alma Street South
to the east, and King Street to the north. Principally comprised of
parking spaces, the Market Square is comprised of three
components: the “front” portion with access currently from Main
Street; the “side” portion with access from King Street; and the
“back” portion with access from Alma Street. A parking lot for
most of the week, the space accommodates the weekly farmers’
market for the community.
The design focus for the Market Square is to create a true
community focal point within downtown Hagersville, a place that
accommodates a multi‐functional area through different times
and seasons of the year. This includes a place that has a visually
appealing interface where it meets the public street edges; that
extends the market function to the Main Street frontage; that
better incorporates the County Building into the streetscape and
the market square; that is a community destination for
community events and activities; and that accommodates offstreet
parking through other times of the year. A key
consideration for the design improvements to the area is branding
the space as the civic heart of downtown Hagersville, including
formally naming the space (i.e. “Hagersville Farmers’ Square”) and
designing the improvements so that the different areas of the
space “read” as an integrated and connected public place.
Hagersville Streetscape Plan
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