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MooreContinuedrenewal now underway, the DBDA is actively working to promote diversification in the types of shops and service establishments in the shopping area. %u201c We need to convince some of the kinds of quality specialty stores%u2014books, camera and audio equipment, for example-to come in,%u201d says Margo Wellington, DBDA vice president, who, like Moore, has been with theWillard Hampton, chairman ofBrooklyn Savings Bank, andchairman of the Association.LJbUAthe time, ability and prestige to get things moving.%u201d Another of the early participants in the redevelopment effort said, %u201c Rothschild convinced all of us about what had to be done, but we were fortunate enough to find a man like Don Moore to do it. Our success is a tribute to him and his highly professional staff that has made things happen.%u201dAn interesting sidelight to the downtown renewal story is that many of the key figures in the process have become residents of our downtown neighborhoods. Moore himself brought his family from Scarsdale in 1970 to Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights, and has recently moved to Park Slope. Shortly after the downtown planning process began, planner Donald Elliott moved his family from Manhattan to Pierrepont Street in the Heights. Ken Patton continues to live on Garfield Place in Park Slope. Rosan lives on Eighth Street in the Slope. Paul Levine, Rosan%u2019s predecessor, last year moved from Flatbush to Cobble Hill.-Michael Allen%u2018 April 25, W74 'PHOENIX Page 23Two of the founding fathers-Walter Rothschild, then president of A& S, and Gordon Braislin, chairman of Dime Savings Bank.' ' M;%u25a0 mNew Healthcare Plan LaunchedAssociation since its start. %u201c We need this kind of mix to make downtown an even more viable shopping center.%u201dGordon Griswold, being honored with the Gold Medal Award by the Association this year for his service to downtown Brooklyn, says the key to where things are today was Walter Rothschild of Abraham & Straus. %u201c We were fortunate enough to find someone who hadHealthcare, a new approach to family medical care for New Yorkers located in downtown Brooklyn was officially dedicated April 18 with more than 300 physicians, business leaders and government officials attending the event.Healthcare, a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) for family and individual health care, is located at 333 Livingston Street and provides virtually all of the typicalfamily%u2019s medical needs-both in and out of the' hospital-all covered under fixed monthly payment.John S. Wyper, vice president of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, served as chairman of the dedication, and speakers included Deputy Mayor Paul Gibson, Brooklyn Borough President Sebastian Leone, Budget Director Melvin Lechner and Dr. Paul Finkelstein, president of the Medical Group of Healthcare.Sixty-five prominent Brooklyn physicians started planning this project nearly Five years ago and subsequently reached agreement for co-sponsorship with Connecticut General. CG, which is based in Hartford, Conn., has prior experience with HMOs in Columbia, Maryland (with Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) and Phoenix, Arizona (with a group of localphysicians).Healthcare services include 24- hour access to medical care, health chcck-ups, full pre-natal and postnatal maternity benefits, home care, full hospital care, psychiatric care, and all other treatment of illness or injury by Healthcare physicians. Out-of-hospital care is rendered in Healthcare%u2019s new, specially designed center in the Consolidated Edison Building.The other metropolis.Brooklyn. . . more them a borough. . . a d ty beside a city. . . and c metropolis in its own ngftf. Brooklyn... the brgest seaboard on the Em* Coast, and the second largest retoil shopping area in theMc^ a d urcrs Hctwwt tt hrmly tiedfuture of Brooklyn. The proof? We hawe mare branchm %u00bb -J %u2022 * %u2666 _to g ro w w t& tH . _______r$ barking ffte w a y you want %u00bb i> i%u00bb