This is one of those problem settlements where there is just nothing to show the "present" of my universe. I'll just go with the past and the present will be for our imaginations.
Today in the CBO
The View from the BMU
by Nat Wright-Kawolski
31 May 2298 – Haymarket Mall
On certain Tuesdays for the 2297 and 2298 seasons, we will feature one of the settlements where teams in the Boston Minor Union play.
In our twelfth trip around the BMU, we will go to the concrete palace with the beautiful rooftop garden, Haymarket Mall.
The Mall
According to a terminal entry, "Haymarket Mall served as an indoor marketplace before the Great War, with upper levels consisting of apartments and common areas. . . . After the war, the building fell into disrepair, with most rooms inaccessible. The main area consists of two floors, accessible via various stairwells, with an elevator leading to more derelict rooms upstairs. The lower section has access to Congress Street garage, while the upper floors have access to the exterior roof."
Today, the Haymarket Mall is Downtown Boston's primary shopping location. Although the building is still in disrepair, it does offer the most stability in Downtown Boston skyscrapers. Residents have been working on making the building more accessible and the upper floors have been completely repaired to allow separated apartments.
The lower floors serve as the shopping center. Haymarket Mall has one of only three Fallon's Department Stores with the main one in Roxbury and the secondary one in Diamond City.
The upper floors are the living quarters with a number of upper-class apartments in the top "suites" and regular apartments below them.
The Terrace
The Garden Terrace is the area and namesake of Haymarket Mall's unique field location. According to a terminal, "It is the ruined remains of a once-elegant roof-top terraced garden, with a fountain in the middle surrounded by dead grass, old standard lamps, and damaged trees. The terrace is accessed through Haymarket Mall or by traveling along the overpass above which is accessed from the Commonwealth Bank (via a walkway and then up) or from the Cambridge construction site. . . . On the northeast corner of the terrace, there is a building. . . . Near the entrance to the small building, there is scaffolding leading down. The monorail car can be accessed by walking across some planks connected to the scaffolding or by descending to the street below."
It still needs more TLC, but the Garden Terrace does serve as the Haymarket Mall Commandos' home field, aptly named Garden Terrace Field. Future plans include turning the field into greens so that it can be a baseball field when in season and a picnic park otherwise. The Commandos certainly enjoy their unique location with the only baseball field at a second story or above.