MARQUETTE, Mich. (WZMQ) – Just after Thanksgiving, Christmas will be in full swing in Ishpeming. The U.P.’s first European-style holiday market will feature several vendor huts, all built locally.
Five of these huts will come from Senior NMU Construction Management students, including one with a separate design they created last semester. After months of volunteering between classes, Project Manager Ryan Corgan says their hard work will pay off.
“It’s really a team effort here, putting in the hours and making it happen,” he said. “We’ve got four huts here that are almost substantially complete. We’re going to haul them out next week, it’s going to be good stuff.”
The four new builds are designed with a special purpose, hoping to live long into the oncoming tradition.
“These are walk-in huts, they’re a new design we came up with and they’re fully collapsable so we can store them,” said Construction Management Senior, Joe Dunnigan. “They’ll only be up for one month but they’re very storagable, very portable, and they’ll be used for years.”
It’s not just NMU Construction taking the credit, either. Ishpeming high schoolers and local fire departments are also contributing their own huts to the Kriskindlmarkt. A total of nine will be set up in the Mather Inn parking lot.
The huts will be unveiled at the grand opening on Black Friday, November 27 at 2 p.m. A full schedule for the Kriskindlmarkt can be found here.
