July 29, 2019 — It’s hard to say whether the old Revere Copper and Brass site is more ghost town or field of dreams.
Michael and Charlie Quinn, a son and father who recently purchased the 14-acre lot fronting on the northern part of New Bedford harbor, are going with the latter.
So will I.
The Quinns plan to make the old metal factory into a shipbuilding yard for their related Shoreline Resources businesses — which over three decades have included commercial fishing vessels, Standard Marine Outfitters and East Coast Fabrication, a ship repair shop.
So a family that fishes, outfits the boats for voyage and rehabs them is going to take a crack at building them. It’s a vertically integrated business that has been successful, and as New Bedford has become a hub of East Coast fishing, maybe it will work for them.