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Architect Tony Hsiao, right, talks with prospective buyers Jim Marr and Charlie Stratton of Methuen near a board displaying condominium designs to be built in an old Lawrence mill.

Affordable housing becomes draw for Lawrence

Buyers look past city's troubles

By Kimberly Blanton
Globe Staff / April 18, 2006

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LAWRENCE -- Linda Ford waited her turn along with scores of other prospective buyers to put down a deposit on a condominium loft in an old mill being renovated along the Merrimack River. This is the same city where, 20 years ago, vandals yanked out her car battery before rolling her red Plymouth down a hill, and where robbers ransacked ... (Full article: 1157 words)

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