Word: malling
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During the late '50s, the firm of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes had planned a huge corporate office mall along Route 128, designed for companies like the First National Bank of Boston. The future of downtown Boston seemed grim. Its economic base was about to sprawl into the suburbs. But after Logue completed Government Center, First National changed its plans. Its corporate headquarters now stand as a landmark on Boston's skyline, and almost all the big corporations of New England have followed suit. Their headquarters are now congested into Boston's downtown rather than fragmented around its suburbs...
...years community residents have battled with the developers over the size and nature of the project; last week, most of them pledged to drop their opposition if the builders would agree to trim the size of the shopping mall portion of the project drastically, which locals had feared would attract too much traffic...
More likely, however, a firm foundation has been laid, and some day not too far away, Parcel 1B will be transformed from a controversial muddy field into a concrete mall. And if its neighbors keep their word, no one will be protesting this time...
...search of greener pastures, and threatening to trample everything in its path. Not content to be the nation's largest stockbroker, the company is pawing its way into a variety of businesses, from real estate to insurance. The goal: to provide clients with a shopping mall of financial services...
...strategy of building an investment shopping mall was conceived a decade ago by the then president, now chairman, Donald Regan. Merrill Lynch's boss, whose background includes both the Cambridge Latin School and the Marine Corps, concluded that he wanted to free the firm from the vagaries of the stock market. Now the firm tries to provide customers with a range of financial services that it can keep selling even when the Dow Jones index is falling...