When most people look at West End , they see an urban community in decline.

But when Charlie Faulkner looks from his office window overlooking the Arlington-West End neighborhood, he sees a wealth of untapped potential and opportunity.

He isn't content just looking. The president of Princeton Baptist Medical Center has pumped thousands of dollars into fixing up dilapidated houses in the mostly forgotten Birmingham neighborhood that surrounds his hospital.

And now, with help from friends, his investments are beginning to reap benefits that could change the course of a community, and the lives of foreign workers who've found a place to call home.

It started with the convergence of two ideas: the desire to revitalize West End , and a need to lure talented East Asian nurses to Princeton .

Next Page: A Plan Comes Together