Takoradi Market Circle

A renovation project started in September 2020 by Nana Akufo Addo and his government, of which sod was being cut by the Vice-president Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia.

The John Mensah Sarbah road[2] links the market from the South West and from the North East.

These hawkers take over all the pedestrian walkways, parking spaces and built wooden sheds and warehouses, making the market circle untidy, dirty and congested.

This is generally prohibited as it makes the regulation of market activities difficult as well as increase vehicular and human traffic.

The problem became worse in the early 1990s when the city authorities could no longer allocate space for individuals who had requested for stores, stalls etc.

The market has had a lot of fire outbreaks with most destroying properties running in several hundreds of thousands of Cedis.

The most recent one was on 16 March 2007[7] when properties worth millions of cedis were lost when fire swept through portions of the market.