“This is our city’s greatest asset, its greatest tourist attraction,” Mr. Doyle said in his City Hall office. “I like it the way it is,” said Russell Wyss, a resident of Fitzroy, a suburb of Melbourne. Mr. Wyss has been going to the market for 75 years, since he was a small child. Like many Melburnians, he and his wife have a ritual of shopping there every week, returning to trusted vendors they’ve known for decades. Areas now used for parking and thoroughfares would become public plazas, and buildings on the periphery would be developed for shops and restaurants.

Source: New York Times June 12, 2017 18:22 UTC