The Tannery Marketplace Story
Newburyport’s finest shopping and dining experience awaits you here at The Tannery Marketplace, adjoining the picturesque waterfront of the Newburyport Harbor on Boston’s North Shore. Are you ready to see, taste, and touch the magic of these historic mills? We look forward to seeing you at The Tannery Marketplace.
Our award-winning shopping has been recognized in Boston Magazine as the best shopping on the North Shore. The Tannery Marketplace has one-of-a-kind gifts and specialty items as well as dining and business services. Here you will find over 50 stores and businesses to suit all your needs.
The Tannery Marketplace has the pretty things you want, the practical things you need, creative ways to express yourself, and fine foods to satisfy your appetite, all in one place!
On Sundays, the Tannery Marketplace hosts the Newburyport Farmer’s Market. The Farmer’s Market runs May - November from 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM and the new Winter Market runs 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM twice a month under The Tannery Marketplace’s heated event tent, December – April. Look for fresh fruits and vegetables in season from our local farmers, and enjoy delectables from local food preparers and artisans.
The Tannery Marketplace has been serving greater Newburyport for more than a quarter-century. We continually strive to make our community and the world a better and greener place to work and live. We seek to be leaders in regional recycling, historic preservation, renewable resources, solar energy, and conservation.
There are so many reasons to come visit the Tannery Marketplace, but you only need to pick one, so come experience it for yourself.
History of This Location:
In 1985, Prime Tanning Co. sold its Newburyport tanneries to Hall and Moskow and David directed the environmental clean-up. The new Tannery Mall, consisting of Mill No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, offers both low-cost incubator space for entrepreneurs to start businesses and competitively priced retail space. Success has grown as a result of the restoration of Inn Street and other industrial buildings downtown, as well as the increasing attractiveness of the Tannery Mall as a destination shopping center.
The Tannery Mall expanded in 1992 when Mercury Anodizing's building (a super fund clean-up site adjacent to the Tannery) was purchased. With this property, David preserved a segment of the building to establish Mill No. 4 on the Tannery campus and allocated the rest for Tannery parking. Mill No. 5 was later constructed in 2005 on what was formerly a 430,000-gallon tank farm owned by W.E. Atkinson (another successful Brownfield clean-up project run by David).
Hall and Moskow today uses 400 60Kw solar panels to generate most of The Tannery's common area power needs, mandates recycling by its commercial tenants, bales the Tannery cardboard – cutting trash volume in half – and is now the first in New England to experiment with using heliostats (computer-operated mirrors) to melt stockpiles of snow. David's management philosophy is an extension of Gordon and Michael's vision, one that goes beyond revitalizing industrial-use and residential property to encompass green building management practices.