Store owner, non-profit combine to create 6 new apartments
Mom & daughter came from NYC; opportunity translates into family housing above retail
WORCESTER, Dec. 20, 2006 --- As Belia Jimenez tells it, one day about seven years ago, she and her mother Maria drove north from New York City and saw potential in the small brick commercial buildings and homes nestled together in Worcester's neighborhoods. It had the city feel that they had grown used to since moving from the Dominican Republic, without the overbearing hustle and bustle of the Big Apple.