It's Saturday morning and Lawrence Hopkins is on his hands and knees in sawdust.
Sanding a doorframe, Hopkins seems at home in the Mount Auburn Street construction site, with its boarded-up windows and makeshift plywood door.
For the past two months, Hopkins and his brother Brendan have been working daily to help Daedalus--a Square restaurant and bar slated to open later this month--take shape.
"We're really putting our heart and soul into this place," Hopkins says, gesturing to the ongoing construction around him.
It is this care and attention to detail that Hopkins hopes will distinguish his restaurant and help it survive in the often-cutthroat Square market.
A Life-Long Dream
Since Lawrence's move from Galway, Ireland in 1989, both he and his brother have worked in the Square's Border Cafe, Grafton Street and in Temple Bar on Mass Ave.
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