Arts and Crafts Holdings topped off its eight-year drive to transform the borderland along Spring Garden Street into a happening community by giving its makers a cool place to live.

Q the funk: that neon sign atop the entrance to The Quincy, on Spring Garden Street at Poplar’s southern edge, signals that what’s inside will be more colorful than what you see here. / This photo by Craig Grossman, Arts & Crafts Holdings; all other photos by Jin Wu via Arts & Crafts Holdings
Spring Garden Street east of Broad has been something of a no man’s land for decades, at least since the urban-renewal era turned much of it into a sort-of suburban industrial park.
But around the dawn of the millennium, the…