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Article: FROM SCHOOL TO ART COLONY [Corrected 07/19/07] New lofts to honor developer's vision
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2007
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GLOBE NORTH 1 / CHELSEA
When Robert Kuehn Jr. took on the task of redeveloping the
historic Chelsea Post Office into a satellite campus for Bunker Hill
Community College in 1996, he seemed to have had the community, not
just the challenge of the project, in mind.
"He was able to walk into a building and see beyond the number of
pigeons" living there, said Juan Vega, executive director of Centro
Latino de Chelsea.
Vega worked for Historic Massachusetts Inc., which acquired the
post office building and partnered with Kuehn. "All the old walls in
there, things left from the post office - to be able to literally
erase all that from in front of you and see a vision ... see that
it's a doable ...