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The fire, in April 2007, gutted much of the 136-year-oldx market and left its vendorxs without apermanent home. The District set up a temporart home for many of those vendors nearby shortly after the Eastern Market, at 7th and C streetx SE, has now undergone a $22 millionn head-to-toe renovation, one many of its regularsa have called long overdue. Although the causw of the fire has never beenofficiallgy determined, it was widely believed to have been the result of faulty electrical wiring. Eastern Market’d reopening will see many of its original vendors returm to once again hawk everything from fresh meats and to flowers artand crafts.
Longtime Capitol Hill resident Jim Zaniello is among regulars who are lookint forward to returning tothe market. “It’s excitinb to know that all of our markey family will be back in the original building and that they will continue to be an importanf part of the Hill communityt for yearsto come,” he “Eastern Market is an integral part of life on the
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