there is the town of St Jacobs this is near and they rely heavily on the tourism that the famous market brings in. There are many busloads of people that come to this area every day for the market and then go to the town. They are afraid without the market it will all dry up until it is rebuilt. There is an outlet mall across the street and several hotels. all built around this place. A lot of poeple are going to be hurting because of this fire. A lot of people are nwo without work as well that had a business there.
But one person put a positive spin on it when he said it was a good thing it happened while closed, there may have been hundreds of people in the building when this fast spreading fire hit.
I hope they find out soon what caused it. It is not suspected to be arson.