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opinion | Tom Keane

Boston rising

After years of inactivity, ‘a renaissance on steroids’

By Tom Keane

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 24, 2012

Walk around the city and you’ll find other holes in the ground. These, however, are filled with cranes and workers. It’s easy to dismiss them as nothing more than anecdotal - tentative signs of an economic recovery the Federal Reserve still views as tepid. Yet while the Fed’s assessment may well be true for the rest of the country, the situation in Boston is different. In Boston, big things are happening.

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