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Article: Little steps, big results
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2009
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There's a lot of dead space in Boston right now - giant holes
all over the city, as developers wait for financing to thaw. But
you'd never know that if you dropped by the Brewery complex, near
the Stony Brook T in Jamaica Plain.
On a recent Friday, it thrummed with life. At Ula Cafe, cheery
servers dispensed sweet potato sandwiches and tortilla soup so good
you could climb into it. Assorted alterna-types sat at the tables,
staring at their laptops, chewing away to the sounds of The Beta
Band.
Treadmills whirred and weight machines clanked at Mike's gym. At
Kenyon Woodworking, carpenters dragged whinnying saws through
lumber. Rehab specialists at Bay Cove Human Services sat in a
meeting ...