From Aging Town To 'Mini-SoHo'

Blight turns old industrial properties into just the right places for visual artists to gather and ignite energy.

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August 22, 2002, 11:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"For years, people looked at the blighted block of State Street lined with abandoned factories and warehouses and saw the worst...[a] once-thriving manufacturing hub...bleeding jobs for decades. But the artists saw something else: huge 19th-century industrial buildings with large windows, high ceilings, the chance to own 9,000 square feet for something like $75,000."

Thanks to Bryan Coates

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Community / Economic Development New York

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