I started having them there as we were renovating the high school and adding a new vocational wing. Paul Donato speaking at Gene Brune’s Inaugural Ball at Assembly Square Mall.ĭuring my 10 years as mayor, I held two of my Inaugural Balls at the Assembly Square Mall. The best thing was that we always had something going on at the mall. They had different food groups, including deserts. Seniors would make their best recipes and enter them in the contest. They agreed, and every year the Somerville Council on Aging would hold a food contest. I had asked the developers if they would make the mall user friendly for some of our programs. Jordan Marsh was so successful that the President of Allied Stores flew in from New York to meet with me to tell me how pleased he was to be in Somerville, and that the store per square foot was one of their best stores. The mall did extremely well, and it had two anchor stores, K-mart on one end and the former Jordan Marsh before it became Macy’s on the other end.
A developer turned the assembly plant into the Assembly Square Mall and in 1981 serving my second year as mayor, I cut the ribbon. Many will be surprised to know that the Ford Motor Company in 1926 opened a Ford Motor assembly plant in Somerville, which had been one of the region’s largest employers until 1958, when the Ford Edsel failed and was no longer successful.
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