Editing Lord Street Market (section)

==Description==
The market was an expanse of asphalt, surrounded by grass and with stalls set up on it.<ref name="16.13e1">“The market, north end,” Grue said, reading it.  “You know it?”

“I do.  It’s shut down at present.” [...] “The market’s a good spot.  His people were at the south end of town.  It’ll take him a bit to get there, so he won’t be able to stage any kind of ambush.” [...] The market was almost empty, an expanse of asphalt devoid of cars, surrounded by tall grass.  There were still faint marks where the treads and scoops of bulldozers had pushed the dirt and debris to the far side of the lot.  Only a few stalls were standing, but the displays were empty. - [[Monarch 16.3]]</ref> The stalls could be rented by anybody for $50 to $250, and were used to sell a multitude of items such as food, pets, computers and cape [[merchandise]], like a combination of a garage sale and a mall. It was open all week, but was busiest during the weekends.<ref name="4.1e1">I caught the bus to the Docks, but I didn’t head to the loft.  I made my way up the length of the Boardwalk, until the shops began thinning out and there were longer stretches of beach.  The usual route people took was driving in through a side road outside of town, but for anyone hiking there, you had to take a shortcut through a series of very similar looking fields.  My destination was just far enough away that you’d think you’d maybe missed it.<br/>
Officially, it was the Lord Street Market.  But if you lived in Brockton Bay, it was just ‘the market’.<br/>
The market was open all week, but most people just rented the stalls on the weekends.  It was fairly cheap, since you could get a stall for fifty to a hundred dollars on a weekday and two hundred and fifty to three hundred on weekends, depending on how busy things were.  The stalls showcased everything from knick-knacks handicrafts put together by crazy cat ladies to overstock from the most expensive shops on the Boardwalk, marked down to ten or twenty five percent of the usual price.  There were ice cream vendors and people selling puppies, there was tourism kitsch and there was a mess of merchandise relating to the local capes.  There were racks of clothing, books, computer stuff and food.  If you lived in the north end of Brockton Bay, you didn’t have a garage sale.  You got a stall at the market.  If you just wanted to go shopping, it was as good as any mall. - [[Shell 4.1]]</ref>

The same enforcers who operated on the [[Boardwalk]] kept the Market crime-free.<ref name="4.1e2"/>

A well-known burger joint called [[Fugly Bob's]] was located on the edge of the market.<ref name="4.2e1">Fugly Bobs was fast food of the most shameless kind, sold out of a part-restaurant, part-bar, part-shack at the edge of the Market, overlooking the beach.  Anyone who lived in the area had probably eaten there once, at some point. - [[Shell 4.2]]</ref>