Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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87 WHEN A BIG NEW DEVELOPMENT ENTERS a tight-knit town, residents worry about everything from increased traffic to how it'll change the town's character. But Lynnfield residents didn't need to worry about MarketStreet. ere you can find people outside mingling with their neighbors, playing with their kids and dogs, and enjoying the small-town feeling of being together, ice skating, doing yoga, or having an ice cream in the grass. "Lynnfield is such a tight, wonderful com- munity," says Lorraine Sacco, co-founder of the Reid R. Sacco AYA Cancer Alliance and Lynnfield resident for more than 40 years. "MarketStreet has literally brought communi- ties together." MARKETSTREET, LYNNFIELD Get Outside and Mingle MarketStreet has more than 80 restaurants (such as Davio's, Gaslight, and Otto Pizza) and shops ( from lululemon athletica and Vine- yard Vines to Polka Dog Bakery), but as Sacco notes, it's so much more than shopping. Un- like a typical mall, MarketStreet is an open-air venue with shops surrounding e Green, a community gathering space that invites play with free weekly fitness classes from June to October, movie nights, live music, a winter- time ice skating rink, and other outdoor fun. PHOTOGRAPHS BY TONY SCARPETTA Above, Clockwise from top left, Davios, Gaslight, Lorraine Sacco, and Vineyard Vines. "It's nice to be outside," agrees Danielle Berdahn, Lynnfield resident and co-owner of Yella restaurants in Andover and Gloucester. "In New England I think that we hibernate a lot of the year, and to have that opportunity to be outside and walking around encourages that outdoor entertainment vibe."