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Article: In fire's aftermath, Restaurant Row eager to get back to business
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2009
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The fire in January that ripped through the section of
Peterborough Street known as Restaurant Row did more than gut a
commercial building housing six restaurants and a dry cleaner. It
tore out a vibrant stretch of businesses that had given residents a
gathering place and a sense of community, apart from the lights and
noise of Fenway Park.
So when 20-year Fenway resident Lori Frankian grabbed a
microphone yesterday and announced "Restaurant Row is going to
return!" the crowd of more than 100 at the "Revitalizing
Peterborough" block party broke out into applause.
But a question loomed: When?
"There's no timeline at all," said Bud Thornton, co-owner of
Thornton's Fenway Grille, one of the ...