The Mayor is launching a design competition for the Providence River Pedestrian Bridge on Friday afternoon. The RFP RFQ will reportedly be up on the Planning Department’s website by Friday. I will be at the press conference on Friday and will be reporting back the salient details.
In the meantime, check out this thread from January when we last discussed this bridge proposal.
Download the Providence Department of Planning and Development's Providence River Bridge presentation.
The first permanent structure to rise from Providence’s Interstate 195 lands almost certainly won’t be a new office or apartment building, but the long-planned pedestrian bridge crossing the Providence River.
The City and RIDOT today announced a design competition for the new Providence River Pedestrian Bridge which will replace the old Route 195.
Jef Nickerson
Greater City Providence
I don’t get it. Didn’t we already talk about this? And there’s another competition? I’m confused.
They did a design competition for the parks, but the bridge was not part of that competition (mostly because it was not funded at that point).
There has been a small group working on the bridge for some time, which is where the drawings in the referenced post above came from, but word coming out of that group was that no one was happy. Hopefully this competition will result in a worthy design and not design by committee, which was the direction it was going in.
BTW, what ever happened with the winners of the park competition?
They’ve put out the RFQ today instead of an RFP.
Oops, I knew it was going to be an RFQ and just typed RFP out of habit of everything being and RFP. CHanged above.
I was hoping for an RFP. Should have got that architect’s license after all…
I took video of the press conference and will have it posted later this afternoon.