For years, industrial sites that once fueled the city’s economy have sat idle and deteriorating in and around residential areas. Now, the brownfields are presenting an opportunity for residents to re-invent their neighborhoods.
From left, soloists Lilli Paasikivi, Christiane Oelze, Joseph Kaiser and Hanno Müller-Brachmann sing as Christoph Von Dohnányi conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2008 season-closing performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.