 He established a fund, taken from store profits, to help employees who were sick, and offered pensions to employees who had worked in the store for twenty years.Boucicaut's next grand project was to build a much larger store.He had met a French entrepreneur, Henry-François Maillard, who had made a fortune in New York, who told Boucicaut about an American businessman named Alexander Turney Stewart who in 1846 had constructed the Marble Palace on Broadway in New York, the first multi-story building devoted entirely to selling merchandise, using an iron frame and large plate glass windows to increase light and space.