On a cold, drizzly morning, a crowd of people gathered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. They stood before an old parking lot with cracking asphalt, framed by a chain link fence. But that’s not what they were seeing. Instead, they saw apartments, a market, a café. They saw Dexter Street Commons, a new housing and commercial development, breaking ground in a neighborhood in the midst of a revival. Despite the rain, the onlookers cheered when the shovels hit the dirt...
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