Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fair. Cabaret tunes from the piano bar commingle with bluegrass songs played by street musicians. The streets between the buildings, once choked with produce trucks, have been closed to traffic. Now pushcart vendors hawk their wares-scrimshaw knives and jewelry, puppets and pottery-while in the North and South Markets, scores of small shops offer highly specialized merchandise. Various stalls comprise an international bazaar of imported delicacies. In Quincy Market, the center hall, shoppers may sample raw oysters, yogurt cups...
Only a decade ago, the Faneuil Hall area was deserted and even dangerous. When the middle class left for the suburbs, most of the meat and vegetable wholesalers moved to outlying areas, and the market buildings were left virtually empty, plagued by vandalism and fires. During the '60s, the city began slowly to reclaim the area: city hall was completed in 1967, and soon restaurants and luxury condominiums on the nearby wharves began to bring young, career couples back into the city. In the pull-down-and-build-over-again spirit that has led to much urban blight...
Pressure from local citizens' groups and architects, however, convinced the Boston Redevelopment Authority that the markets could in fact be recycled-not pristinely restored as museum pieces but refurbished and adapted as living, working sources of tax revenues. The most energetic proponent of restoration, Architect Thompson began negotiating with real estate developers, and in 1974, the city of Boston leased Faneuil Hall Marketplace to the Rouse Co. of Columbia, Md. Only after the planners agreed to stagger the opening of the buildings (Quincy Market opened in August 1976, the South Market in August 1977) did the banks agree...
...number of local critics complain that the refurbished market is squeezing out local merchants and residents and replacing them with chic boutique-type shops. Others argue that the markets should have been restored accurately to their 19th century appearance. But Thompson's wife and associate, Jane, rejects what she calls "a Williamsburg mentality, where you have people in costumes catering to tourists." She adds: "We wanted the complex to be economically vital. If you get too many tourists coming through, they discourage the residents and then the merchants start selling little trinkets. You can't support a place...
...have a tooth cavity and don't take care of it, eventually it will get worse," notes California Law Professor Preble Stolz. "With legal problems, that's not always so clear." Although a few insurance companies sell group legal insurance, some major companies have tested the legal market but are holding off waiting for larger public demand. Labor negotiators have begun to focus on legal plans as a fringe benefit. Such coverage, says Claude Lilly, director of an American Bar Association study of prepaid plans, may be "just as common ten to 15 years from now as prepaid medical...