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Article: Old bricks gaining new life in Shirley So far, 35 businesses occupy rope complex
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 19, 2006
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GLOBE NORTHWEST 1 / BUSINESS
SHIRLEY - Eric Shapiro, principal owner of Phoenix Park, likes to
refer to mythology when describing his small business center in
Shirley.
"There is indeed the notion of this place having risen from the
ashes," said Shapiro, 45, a Lexington developer and property manager-
owner, during a recent conversation with several tenants in the
park's main conference room.
Shapiro was using a little poetic license, because the 56-acre
property never was burned to the ground. But it did resemble a ghost
town when Shapiro purchased the property in 1998 for $100,000 from
Enserch Corp. of Dallas.
At the turn of the 20th century, Samson Cordage Works acquired a
textile plant ...