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New Bedford: A fishing family sees opportunity at the old Revere Copper site

It’s hard to say whether the old Revere Copper and Brass site is more ghost town or field of dreams. Michael and Charlie Quinn, a son and father who recently purchased the 14-acre lot fronting on the northern part of New Bedford harbor, are going with the latter. So will I. The Quinns plan to make the old metal factory into a shipbuilding yard for their related Shoreline Resources businesses — which over three decades have included commercial fishing vessels, Standard Marine Outfitters and East Coast Fabrication, a ship repair shop. By Jack Spillane >click to read< 10:45