As carpenters finished an elegantly crafted deck near Greenmount Avenue and Oliver Street, I had a thought:

Where is the "gritty Greenmount" described in news articles a few years ago?

In short, it has largely disappeared. Over the past year, a new, $12.3 million community artisan lab called Open Works has been taking shape in the Greenmount West neighborhood.

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