An well-to-do suburban Boston community watches with envy as it's down-and-out neighbor successfully reinvents itself.
"[F]ormerly complacent West Roxbury residents are coveting the kind of commerce that has made Roslindale Square lively and chic enough to hasten its reincarnation as Roslindale Village. Realizing it is no longer shielded from change by cozy tree-lined streets, West Roxbury is launching its own version of Main Streets - the city program that revitalized Roslindale next door and other communities through public-private partnerships - in hopes of reviving its own downtown."
Thanks to Joshuah D. Mello
FULL STORY: Business blues in West Roxbury: Neighborhood seeks to emulate the revitalization of nearby Roslindale
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