VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) Supporting our military members and their families, a military market has popped up in Virginia Beach. <\/p>\n
This was the second Military Owned Market event this year.<\/p>\n
Its focused on military families, so whether thats a veteran-owned business, a veteran-spouse-owned business, even active-duty family-owned business, said 1701 operations manager Alexandra Craig.<\/p>\n
Vendors sell everything from coffee and food, to clothing, cleaning items, beautiful shells and hot sauce.<\/p>\n
Its a great way to support so many people in our community of people who often get moved around a lot, who have a hard time establishing a footing in their business and so just as a community, in general, its a good way to support those neighbors, said Craig.<\/p>\n
Craig says an event like this was missing in our community.<\/p>\n
Were home to so many military families and a lot of those have businesses of their own and there wasnt a platform for them to share so we wanted to create that, she said.<\/p>\n
The markets pop up on the third Saturday of every month.<\/p>\n
Craig says the next market will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the same spot on Baltic Avenue in Virginia Beach.<\/p>\n
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