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The Community Economic Development Movement, William H. Simon Jan 2002

The Community Economic Development Movement, William H. Simon

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Within a five-minute walk of the Stony Brook subway stop in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, you can encounter the following:

  • A renovated industrial site of about five acres and sixteen buildings that serves as a business incubator for small firms that receive technical assistance from the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC), a nonprofit community development corporation, which is also housed there. Known as the Brewery after its former proprietor, a beer-maker, the complex is owned by a nonprofit subsidiary of JPNDC.
  • A 44,000-foot "Stop & Shop" supermarket. The market opened in 1991 after years in which the …