Renaissance on the other side of "The Hill"

According to excerpts from the story:

Standing outside Kent Novelty Co., Nancy Connell's half-century-old business on Michigan Street NE, you can't see any cranes.

This is the east side -- the "other side" -- of Michigan Hill, the Medical Mile, Pill Hill or whatever the new media and PR flacks are calling it these days. It excites Connell, but also weighs on her.

"I'm kind of hoping somebody offers me big money for the property," she said as she stamped 50-cent price tags on dozens of paddle ball sets.

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