NEW BEDFORD — With the help of state and federal financing, the unlucky Regency Tower apartment building downtown will get a new lease on life in 2010, Gov. Deval Patrick announced Friday.

Bouy, it should be said, was advertised as a wonderkid by his agent Mino Raiola who, with his own turn of phrase, claimed many years ago that Bouy was “the biggest European talent born in 1993”.