Cape Town’s popular Oranjezicht Market has plans to move – Again

The Oranjezicht City Farm Market has only just moved into its new spot at the V&A Waterfront, but another move is already on the cards down the line.

The current venue is meant to hold the market while the wider Granger Bay development takes shape around it. Once that development reaches a certain point, the market is expected to move again.

V&A Waterfront CEO Graham Wood confirmed as much, calling the current site a temporary one, and an expensive one at that, but also a successful one.

Oranjezicht Market to move again – But not anytime soon

As reported by Cape Town Etc, Market co-founder Sheryl Ozinsky isn’t expecting another move for a while, however.

The market has a five-year lease at its current venue, and she’s hoping the next relocation only happens in around a decade.

Exactly when that happens will depend on how the surrounding development progresses. For now, the market’s current home is expected to stay put for the foreseeable future.

The popular Oranjezicht City Farm started in 2012 as a small organic farming project on the slopes of Table Mountain, with a market following a year later.

It grew steadily from there, eventually supporting around 100 traders before leaving its original Granger Bay site in December 2025 to make way for a commercial development.

From there, it moved into a purpose-built venue at the corner of Granger Bay Boulevard and Dock Road, still within the V&A Waterfront.

Wood said the new space has drawn bigger crowds simply because it can hold more people, even if some visitors have noted it doesn’t have quite the same character as the old spot.

Where it could end up next

Nothing is confirmed yet, but Wood floated the idea of the market eventually finding a home in one of the Waterfront’s parks overlooking the bay.

That would tie in with a much bigger project the Waterfront is pursuing: a proposed R24 billion precinct development.

It includes a new protected bay, residential and hotel space, a promenade, tidal pools, public parks, and even reclaiming just over 3.8 hectares of land from the sea, about the size of four rugby fields.

Wood noted the Waterfront is the first private-sector applicant in South Africa to seek approval for land reclamation of this kind. He described the broader project as one of the biggest tourism infrastructure investments the country will see for years to come.

So while the market has a settled home for now, its longer-term future will keep pace with how that bigger development unfolds.