Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This week on Lively, filling those empty spaces in Pawtucket. After losing the Pawsox, Memorial Hospital, and now Hasbro, can the city's reinvention as a bedroom community fill the vacuum with sorely needed housing? Moderator Jim Hummel sits down with Steph Machado of the Boston Globe and The Providence Journal's Antonia Noori Farzan to talk about Pawtucket's new optimism.

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