City officials want to save Nuestra Culinary Ventures in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood, which is facing imminent closure due to longstanding budget woes.
"City officials have devised a plan to rescue Nuestra Culinary Ventures, the nonprofit Jamaica Plain commercial kitchen that rents cooking workspace to food-service entrepreneurs and that had said it will close at the end of the year because of continuing operating losses.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino could disclose the plan as early as today. Details were still being worked out last night, but a city official said the proposal would likely include financial backing as well as a business plan aimed at helping the food-industry incubator become self-sustaining.
'We're going to try to save Nuestra,' said Dot Joyce, Menino's press secretary. 'It's one of those rare places where people are working, and they like working, and it's creating jobs, so we'll do what we can to keep it going.'"
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