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ong before Jim Kavanaugh ever ran a tech company or owned a pro sports team, he was a boy tasked with maintenance work in a Downtown West lot. Kavanaugh’s father was a bricklayer and the business manager for the Bricklayers Union when it moved into the building at 2000 Market, which now houses Maggie O’Brien’s. While his father worked out of an office on the second floor, Kavanaugh toiled outside, pulling weeds and shoveling rocks in the parking lot area. Today, he can stand in

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