Commercial real estate developers like Theresa Carr, profiled here in this piece by local columnist Katherine Kersten, can make a difference. By declining to renew the leases of "problem tenants," and attracting the right mix of businesses, she and her nonprofit team have turned around a whole neighborhood.
I remember hearing this neighborhood called a dangerous part of town. Now I take my kids there for pancakes. It’s lovely to see a piece on a person who’s helped make that change.
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