OUR STORY
Fair Market is a five-vault Quonset Hut erected in 1952 by the Steck Company, a major Austin publisher and printer. As a warehouse it was strategically located next to The Houston & Texas Central Railroad, which from 1871 rolled along present day East 5th Street. The structure housed a variety of industrial and commercial enterprises over the years, with periods of vacancy, and was preserved and repurposed into a now iconic local venue in 2014.
For the past decade Fair Market has provided the community a spacious East Austin gathering space where all are welcome. While new development has cropped up on all sides, the Q-Hut remains a little piece of East Austin’s history now serving as backdrop to a wide range of engaging public events and private celebrations. Almost unmatched locally in sheer size, and boasting an expansive, adjoining greenspace, the project fully embraces the building’s industrial past to make Fair Market one of Austin’s most stunning venues.
