http://www.pps.org/blog/the-10-greatest-us-public-markets-that-met-the-wrecking-ball/ Placemaking for Communities Tue, 14 May 2013 09:42:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.pps.org/blog/the-10-greatest-us-public-markets-that-met-the-wrecking-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-98835 Karina Tue, 14 May 2013 06:37:00 +0000 http://www.pps.org/?p=82374#comment-98835 Looks like the historic markets in my home town have not been destroyed (yet): http://www.soulardmarket.com/soulard_market_002.htm

]]> http://www.pps.org/blog/the-10-greatest-us-public-markets-that-met-the-wrecking-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-98800 Tim Tielman Thu, 09 May 2013 02:07:00 +0000 http://www.pps.org/?p=82374#comment-98800 David-
Great post. I am a fan of markets as well. As a teenager in the Netherlands I worked for a man who set up and broke down weekly open-air markets on a circuit in the province of North Brabant. I am currently the executive director of Buffalo’s activist preservation organization, The Campaign for Greater Buffalo. I am currently working on a Master’s thesis on the removal of commercial space in downtown Buffalo between 1950 and 1980. The Washington Market (a.k.a. Chippewa Market) was indeed a marvel, as was the nearby Genesee Street corridor. My research indicates that the Romanesque market hall (which was where all the meat and fish vendors were) suffered a three-alarm fire in January 1942. The remains of the hall were demolished, and a quick-and-dirty functional concrete single-story building erected (it was just after Pearl Harbor, and the city was still dealing with the Depression). The market lost its mojo with the new hall, and could not survive the city-splitting construction of the Kensington Expressway, which destroyed retailing along the Genesee Street in proximity to the market. Vendors left in droves, the market went into deficit, and the city sold it to a bank, which demo’d the concrete market hall for a parking lot.
-Tim Tielman

]]> http://www.pps.org/blog/the-10-greatest-us-public-markets-that-met-the-wrecking-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-98799 Aberke Wed, 08 May 2013 21:37:00 +0000 http://www.pps.org/?p=82374#comment-98799 The Portland Market was razed for a numbingly large and unarticulated riverfront open space.

]]> http://www.pps.org/blog/the-10-greatest-us-public-markets-that-met-the-wrecking-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-98743 Bill Dawers Tue, 07 May 2013 02:52:00 +0000 http://www.pps.org/?p=82374#comment-98743 Thanks for this great post. I followed up a bit about the Savannah City Market: http://www.billdawers.com/2013/05/06/project-for-public-spaces-list-of-demolished-markets-includes-savannahs-city-market/

]]> http://www.pps.org/blog/the-10-greatest-us-public-markets-that-met-the-wrecking-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-98740 ppsnyc Mon, 06 May 2013 20:27:00 +0000 http://www.pps.org/?p=82374#comment-98740 Good catch, sorry about that! We’ve corrected the error.

]]> http://www.pps.org/blog/the-10-greatest-us-public-markets-that-met-the-wrecking-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-98704 Martin Tangora Sun, 05 May 2013 22:48:00 +0000 http://www.pps.org/?p=82374#comment-98704 That’s not the University of Chicago that destroyed Maxwell Street; it’s the University of Illinois at Chicago.

]]> http://www.pps.org/blog/the-10-greatest-us-public-markets-that-met-the-wrecking-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-98695 Alfonso Morales Sun, 05 May 2013 19:22:00 +0000 http://www.pps.org/?p=82374#comment-98695 …of course according to my research Maxwell Street in Chicago still performs many of its functions of job creation, wealth formation and entrepreneurship… I do grant it’s not as colorful, especially in regards the fencing of stolen merchandise and the drug subculture. Alas, I do miss the old market.

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