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* Using a portion of the museum's 161,000-square-feet in a for-profit capacity. Smith declined to elaborate, but said the museum has about 35,000-square-feet that could be used for such a purpose.

Sounds like a plan! At $10 a square foot it would make a big dent in any shortfall.

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> At $10 a square foot it would make a big dent in any shortfall.

Maybe they could rent out the space to...a mill :)

Seriously, the Textile Museum needs to get the word out...by linking up w/ other historical and national park web sites. That's not too expensive. Boston is a tourist mecca, but the turistas only know the biggies...the Freedom Trail and Old Ironsides, and outlying Concord, Sturbridge Village and Plimouth Plantation. Who ever heard of Lowell?