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Tower may soon shed its fund-raising cloak

Ads helped Pine Street Inn raise $2m for repairs

To fund repairs to the Pine Street Inn tower, the nonprofit has leased ad space on the building. To fund repairs to the Pine Street Inn tower, the nonprofit has leased ad space on the building. (Globe Staff Photo / George Rizer)
By Elizabeth Campbell
Globe Correspondent / August 12, 2008

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A tower more than a century old that rises 156 feet above the Pine Street Inn homeless shelter will finally be visible again this fall, eight years after it was surrounded by scaffolding and covered with advertising banners, according to shelter officials. (Full article: 645 words)

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