It's not much now, but come 2020, the parking lot at Onondaga Drive and Salina Street will be Salt City Market, an indoor food hall.

"Pretty soon that parking lot is going to be something else," said Adam Sudmann, Salt City Market Manager. "Food halls are really popular, a big trend around the country, around the world really. It's also a very old trend.”

It'll feel like multiple restaurants in one central location.

"What we're using this trend for is to showcase talent that we've got in town particularly folks that might not have access to opening up their own restaurants and we're going to help you out with frankly some of the more boring stuff; how to do great math recipes, how to source, how to serve food safely,” said Sudmann. “We want this to be a diverse, vital, really interesting, welcoming space.”

The market will be a representative of Syracuse's diverse population.

"We've got everything from Buma to Ghana, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Thailand, Vietnam, American Soul Food," said Sudmann.

The location for the market was essential. It's right downtown near the city's south side and near west side. It's also just a few blocks from the Centro transit hub, bringing multiple communities together.

"We're all banking on this market bringing together all these adjacent communities that are really interesting and really vital, but cut off from one another. If we are crossing paths, we're so much stronger and so much more interesting. That's what this market is about," said Sudmann.