Article: Developer buys historic Hub textile building for $9m, plans residences

The real estate along the edge of the old Central Artery in downtown Boston is beginning to take on a new life, the latest development being the proposed redevelopment of a once prominent textile building.

Swampscott businessman Ori Ron, who redeveloped 50 residential units in the nearby Leather District, has purchased the old Dainty Dot Hosiery property on Kingston Street near Chinatown for $9 million. A large portion of the building was lopped off in the mid- 1950s to make way for the artery, but a six-story, 53,000-square- foot structure remains.

Ron has tentative plans for residential housing on the site but has not released more details. Under current zoning Ron can build a ...

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