Workers removing decorative facade elements from the Old Public Safety Complex on July 12, 2007. Photo by Jef Nickerson for gcpvd.org
Dear Members of the Providence ZBR
Greater City: Providence writes today to vigorously oppose The Procaccianti Group’s application before you, requesting a use variance to turn this potentially salvageable historic building into a temporary parking lot. […]
Archive for July, 2007
GC:PVD Comment on the Old Public Safety Complex
Published by Jef Nickerson July 24th, 2007 in Buildings, Demolition, Downcity, Government, Parking, Planning, Preservation, Redevelopment and Zoning. 1 CommentEast Side graffiti clean-up results
Published by Jef Nickerson July 23rd, 2007 in East Side and Graffiti. 0 CommentsI play a Geek in The Phoenix
Published by Jef Nickerson July 23rd, 2007 in Culture, Events, Media, Other Organizations, People and Technology. 0 CommentsPhoto © Richard McCaffrey for The Providence Phoenix
Friend of GC:PVD Jack Templin and his cohort Brian Jepson are the Providence Geeks. In last week’s Phoenix (still lingering on newsstands until this Thursday), Ian Donnis wrote a nice piece on the Geeks, geek-culture, and the technology industry in Providence. And I jumped into the photo taken […]
Fire at Grove Street School
Published by Jef Nickerson July 17th, 2007 in Buildings, Demolition, Federal Hill, Neighborhoods and West Side. 0 CommentsUPDATE 07/18: Sources state that the City has required the building’s owner, Michael Tarro “secure” the building within 7 days.
UPDATE 07/18: Arson unit investigating blaze at old school [The Providence Journal]
UPDATE 07/17: The following photos were forwarded to me by the WBNA:
From the Providence Journal:
July 17, 2007
Update: Fire at former Grove St. School under control
PROVIDENCE […]
DRC to review Fogarty Building demo Monday 07/09
Published by Jef Nickerson July 8th, 2007 in Buildings, Demolition, Downcity, Parking, Planning, Redevelopment, Retail and Walkability. 2 CommentsRendering of 111 Fountain Street from The Procaccianti Group
Tomorrow (Monday, July 9th), the Downcity Design Review Committee will consider a proposal by The Procaccianti Group (TPG) to demolish the Fogarty Building, located at 111 Fountain Street, Downtown. If the DRC grants the preliminary approval for demolition, the DRC will then review plans for the building […]
Benefit Street Graffiti Clean-Up, July 14th
Published by Jef Nickerson July 8th, 2007 in East Side, Graffiti, Neighborhoods, Other Organizations and Quality of Life. 0 CommentsPhoto by Jef Nickerson for gcpvd.org
The College Hill Neighborhood Association, the District 9 Providence Police, the Providence Preservation Society and the Mayor’s Graffiti Task Force, in partnership with Councilmen Cliff Wood and Seth Yurdin and Adler’s Hardware, invite the community to the Historic Benefit Street Graffiti Clean-up
Saturday July 14th, 9:00am–12:00 noon.
Residents and businesses are […]
Brown Bookstore topic of next GC: Exchange
Published by Jef Nickerson July 6th, 2007 in Colleges/Universities, East Side, GC: Exchange, Neighborhoods, Redevelopment and Retail. 0 CommentsImage by Jef Nickerson for gcpvd.org
Our next Greater City: Exchange meeting will take place next Tuesday, July 10th starting at 5:30pm at Spats Restaurant. Spats is located at 182 Angell Street (near the corner of Thayer), we will be meeting on the lower level.
At the meeting, representatives from the Brown Bookstore will be joining […]
Cleanup tomorrow at Dexter Park
Published by Jef Nickerson July 6th, 2007 in Graffiti, Neighborhoods, Other Organizations, Parks/Open Space, Quality of Life and West Side. 0 CommentsFriends of Dexter Training Ground will be having a park clean-up tomorrow at 9:00am
Photo by B. Sachs
Cleanup of Dexter Park!
This Saturday, July 7th from 9-11am we will be having a post-July 4th cleanup of Dexter Training Ground. We will be picking up litter, cleaning graffiti, and making note of anything that needs fixing or attention.
If […]
Bradford Street safe, for now.
Published by Jef Nickerson July 5th, 2007 in Federal Hill, Government, Neighborhoods, Planning, Redevelopment, Roads, Walkability and West Side. 0 CommentsImage from LiveLocal
Tonight the Providence City Council did the right thing and voted to send the resolution to abandon a portion of Bradford Street back to committee, meaning it will return to the Planning Department and City Plan Commission for review, as it should have all along. Earlier in the evening, the Public Works Committee […]
Next GC: Exchange: Tuesday July 10th
Published by Jef Nickerson July 5th, 2007 in Buildings, East Side, Events, GC: Exchange, Neighborhoods and Retail. 0 CommentsYes, next week. We’ve been a bit distracted with all this business about Bradford Street, but Bret was able to arrange for a location while he is on vacation out west.
The meeting will be at Spats Restaurant & Bar at 182 Angell Street on the East Side. We will be discussing upcoming renovation plans for […]
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