Article: Little steps, big results

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 ...

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