I’m all in favor of healthy, local options on my own dime but you need an infusion of people, not a monument.
This quote gives me pause:
“You can imagine people squeezing fresh lemons or fresh oranges,’’ said Nancy Brennan, executive director of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy. “You can imagine high-end grilled cheese sandwiches with local cheese as the centerpiece of really good bread.’’
I can also imagine families and workers that would rather have something tasty and affordable.
And while I’m working the Greenway-Food beat — I like that the Globe is supporting the notion of a public market near Haymarket. I hope that they can build it and populate it in a way that works with the existing Haymarket (read low-cost, high volume, and occasionally spotty quality) not against it. Haymarket thrives on the vast number of bargain shoppers and the Public Market should serve as a complement, not a yuppified counterpoint.
