The highly anticipated Boston Public Market will open its doors on Thursday, July 30—marking the country’s first completely locally sourced market of its kind.

The 28,000-square foot open market overlooking the Rose Kennedy Greenway at the corner of Hanover Street and John F. Fitzgerald Surface Road will feature more than 30 vendors from across the region, each featuring homegrown or homemade products for sale. It will be open from Wednesday through Sunday from 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.

“I am obsessed with this project, I talk about it and think about it all the time,” Boston Public Market CEO Liz Morningstar said. “The real purpose of the build-out is to create a totally flexible floor plan that allows some vendors to be as small as 60 square feet.”

The largest vendor, she said, occupies about 850 square feet.

More than 80 New England farms will be represented. In fact, some 92 percent of vendors hail from Massachusetts with the other 8 percent coming from Vermont and Rhode Island.

Anything from farm fresh produce, meat and poultry, milk and cheese, fish and shellfish, bread and baked goods, flowers and an assortment of specialty and prepared foods will be available.

“Think aggregation of products,” Morningstar said.

This aggregation is clearly evident in the layout of the market. Some vendors pair well together while others are situated based on specific needs.

“I thought when we were going down this process that there’d be some science to that,” said Morningstar of the floor plan. “It turns out what we really did was put Union Square Donuts by George Howell Coffee – coffee and donuts. Taza interestingly wanted to be in their location in particular. They want to be grinding in the window and want to be in a shady part because of their chocolate.”

Some of it is scientific as well. In the same way you’d find produce in larger chain grocery stores strategically placed to entice you, the market, too, has Red Apple Farm and Harlow’s Vermont Farmstand in full view of the primary entrance.

At the center of the market is a large open area referred to aptly as The Hub. This is essentially the confluence of produce and meat vendors, as well as event programming.

It also separates the produce and meats as part of inspectional services regulations – the latter needs to be closer to loading docks, for example. This has led to the colloquial label “Meat Street,” where the likes of Chestnut Farms, a Hardwick-based operation with about 250 acres, is able to sell their delicately raised meats. Everything Chestnut Farms does is sustainable, from its completely solar-powered electricity system to the recycled, custom out-of-commission school buses used to house and raise their chickens.

KITCHEN is a state of the art demo kitchen for people to gain hands-on experience dabbling in the culinary world. At 3,200-square feet, KITCHEN’s space will also host guest speakers, information sessions, family activities, fitness classes and more all facilitated by The Trustees of Reservations.

The Public Market will also help serve the surrounding community in a variety of ways. Boston Food Tours, which explores the North End’s authentic Italian fare, will use the market as a launching point for its two tours: one that runs on Wednesday and Saturday, the other on Friday.

Boston Honey Company, which boasts more than 2,000 beehives reaching as far south as Georgia, has an observation hive on-site. Containing between 9,000 and 12,000 bees, the hive has outdoor access that allows them to pollinate the surrounding plant life on the Greenway and neighboring open spaces – a radius of about three miles.

And an exchange will allow visitors to share their favorite recipes and cookbooks, as well as donate them if they’re so inclined, while possibly trying new ones.

For those of age, perhaps nowhere else in all of New England is there a place to find such a variety of local beer and liquor. Like the market’s food offerings, each can or bottle of booze was brewed, distilled or fermented in New England. Ryan Plotkin, the general manager of the market’s alcohol, says there’s in the neighborhood of 80 to 100 various breweries represented at the perfectly named Hopster’s Alley.

In 2001 a coalition of producers, restauranteurs and foodies formed the Boston Public Market Association – the market’s overseeing body. Years of community outreach, advocacy work and solicitation of support from public officials eventually led to the market settling on its current location. 

In 2011 it opted for its new home, a building that also houses access to the MBTA’s Haymarket Station (Green and Orange lines) Registry of Motor Vehicles and parking. Funding for the market was made possible by public-private partnerships totaling more than $9 million, including roughly $6 million from the state and $3 million from The Conservation Fund.

The Association also oversees the seasonal Greenway Farmers Market and Dewey Square Farmers Market, typically between May and November, pending winter weather.

Each vendor pays rent that was agreed upon with the Market Association and varies depending on a number of factors such as financial stability, size of their market space, and of course, the quality of their product.

That being said, the market will constantly be iterated upon as it continues to distinguish itself from others in terms of what’s sold on the premise, its feedback from vendors and shoppers, and overall best practices.

As for Haymarket outside, which runs on the weekend in the shadow of the market, Morningstar said its organizers were one of the first she had a meeting with early on. The plan is for them to work in tandem in order to best serve to their respective customer bases.

“I would say that the market we are today may be very within this year and certainly different over the course of its life span,” said Morningstar. “That’s a good thing.”