David Parker revives neighborhoods in the Boston area. Since the 1970s Parker has gone into the most impoverished parts of the city, only to buy the apartments and buildings that very few wanted. Parker's intrepid nature proved prescient. The locales once shunned by Boston's many well-heeled residents are now very desirable to them.
Parker's success is an effect of him having fixed what was broken. Yet he's very modest about it. Lightly paraphrasing this most courageous of investors, “I could only afford neighborhoods that I didn't feel safe in.”
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