After more than five years at its temporary Wilson Street car park site, the popular market was back home and the community appreciated it.

More than 3000 people visited the relocated Albury North and Belvoir Wodonga Rotary Clubs-hosted market, which was also rebranded Kiewa Street Market.

“We’re visible from the street and close to the shopping centre and those car parks, so it’s nice and convenient to the city centre.”

“It’s still a Rotary project but it’s the Kiewa Street Market,” Albury North Rotarian Peter Drummond said.

“We felt rebranding it was important to give it a whole new dimension, and I think that’s worked.”

​More than 170 stalls set up on the ground floor of the refurbished Kiewa Street car park.

For some it was a continuation of decades as part of the market while for others, such as Border slime-making entrepreneurs Teagan Butler and Madison Crawford of MT Slimes, it was the first public outing.

“Basically we love making slime and we reckon it is so fun and then we thought it would be good idea just to come and see how we went,” Madison said.

The event started as a trash and treasure market in the mid 1980s, facing Townsend Street.

It remained when the Kiewa Street car park was closed for works in 2012 but moved to Wilson Street in 2013 after work on the Quest Apartments building started.

“Its roots were trash and treasure but the idea is to have a better range of food, a food court. We’ve never really had somewhere where people can relax and have a coffee, or have breakfast or brunch,” Mr Drummond said.

“There’s a whole range of new store holders and particularly some of the food vendors are new here. 

“That improves the site, it gets more street food coming, more variety … and now there’s 300 car spaces on top, which is pretty helpful.

“It’s good to be back on one level and it will also allow us to flow to the outside again.”

Lorna Elkin and her daughter Richelle Walker were glad to be back at the Kiewa Street site, they both felt the light at the Wilson St market was a bit on the gloomy side.

Their family business Lake Hume Free Range Eggs set up by Lorna’s husband Len has been market regulars for more than a decade.

“It’s been very good actually, we’ve been selling heaps of eggs and there’s lots of people coming through so it’s good,” Mrs Walker said on Sunday morning. 

“I think with the better lighting here it has brought more people in to come and see what it’s like. Down at the other one it was a bit dull, you know.”

The return to the Kiewa Street coincides with a milestone for the Border egg producers.

On the 11th of February, it will mean we’ve been coming to the market for 12 years,” Mrs Elkin said.

“We’ve been going for a while, it’s a lot of Sundays isn’t it?” 

Mrs Elkin said regular customers quickly sought them out in the Kiewa Street car park.