The French Market in New Orleans’ French Quarter can still stake a claim to being one of the country’s oldest marketplaces, but in recent years shops stocked with bottles of Louisiana hot sauce, boxes of beignet mix, and other food-oriented souvenirs out-numbered stalls where fresh food was sold.

Tomorrow the French Market Corporation, a non-profit organization that operates the historic facility, unveils the results of a $5 million revitalization project intended to realign the food-oriented section—a farmers’ market—with its original purpose. The hope is that this transformation, designed by locally based Billes Architecture, will draw more visitors and residents to a more authentic venue where vendors will sell fresh produce, flowers, coffee, spices, baked goods, cheeses as well as meats and seafood.