Grange Hall Burger Bar

The City Council on Wednesday gave final approval to landmark the Fulton Market meatpacking district, capping more than a year of impassioned resistance from many property owners and food wholesalers angry that the historic designation limits their redevelopment options.

The Fulton-Randolph Market District is the city's 56th landmark district but the first in an active industrial area. Spanning more than a dozen blocks mostly on Fulton Market and Randolph Street, the district includes 86 buildings that can't be demolished or altered in a "historically inappropriate" way. An additional 44 buildings in the district not deemed historically significant, plus 10 vacant lots,...