Photo (cc) atvance Pedestrian River Bridge Designs to be Displayed at Providence City Hall Public invited to view the designs of 11 finalists and provide feedback at a reception at Providence City Hall on November 3rd...
Archive - October 2010
Greater City ProvidenceRIPTA website survey
Photo cc jk5854 RIPTA is in the progress of redesigning their website and has a survey seeking your input. Go here to take the survey. RIPTA’s website is something that has come up here time and time again. If...
Jef NickersonNews & Notes
Public access to S.F. bay tied to private projects [SFGate] “The public-private seam is a delicate one,” APA chief executive officer Paul Farmer mused before the award ceremony here last Wednesday...
Annual Halloween Iron Pour at the Steel Yard – October 29, 2010
Happy Halloween friends! This is our favorite time of year! Join the Iron Guild for Molten Metal Mayhem at our Annual Halloween Iron Pour! HOWL Friday, October 29th Rain Date – Saturday, October 30th Doors at 6:00...
All at once, or slow and steady. How to develop the Route 195 land?
Rendering by Kohn Pedersen Fox via The Architect’s Newspaper Seemingly (and perhaps literally) since before I was born, Boston has been attempting to redevelop the area across Fort Point Channel from downtown. The...
GC: Photos
More photos submitted to our Flickr Group by our readers. Photo (cc) provbenson2009 Photo © 1W57thNY Photo (cc) provbenson2009 Photo © BlueisCoool If you’d like your photos featured here, join our Flickr...
Coastway Community Bank on Washington Street
Rendering by Saccoccio & Associates Architects Back in March Coastway Community Bank first appeared before the DRC to seek permission to renovate the old Washington trust location on Washington Street and move from...
Werewolf 5k (Oct. 23)
Run the Werewolf 5k! Image from Wooly Productions Full Moon, 3pm, Sat Oct 23, Sims Ave, Providence Dress as a werewolf or a pursuing villager! Villagers, please bring a pitchfork or broom. (plastic or rubber preferred)...
News & Notes
SFGate: Footbridge an elegant new icon in East Bay The 600-foot-long arc not only eases the way for pedestrians and bicyclists, it also sends a message naysayers choose to ignore: our society should aim to produce civic...
Los Angeles CicLAvia
StreetFilms CiclovÃÂas are an event where a major street(s) in a city is closed to automobiles and turned over to bikes (and pedestrians, and dancers, and performers, and a whole bunch of non-auto activity). The...
The Shortcut, interactive lighting display in London
Shortcut is an interactive lighting installation in a pedestrian way in London by artist Jason Bruges: Shortcut is a responsive lighting installation for the Dover Yard in London; a well-used pedestrian route linking...
Providence Geeks at Firehouse 13 (Oct. 20)
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010, 5:30 – 8:30pm Firehouse 13, 41 Central Street, Providence, RI < --NOTE!! FREE (buy your own food and drink - it's cheap) The October Geek Dinner is a few short days away, and...
News & Notes
The war on trains [History Eraser Button] What the hell is going on? Opposition to trains is not some kind of Tea Party platform. You aren’t hearing anybody talk about it on Fox News or AM radio. There’s...
City Plan Commission Meeting (Oct. 19)
PROVIDENCE CITY PLAN COMMISSION NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING – TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2010 4:45 PM Department of Planning and Development, 4th Floor Auditorium 400 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903 OPENING...
Union Wadding Mill Fire
Photo from Pawtucket Foundation Facebook Page Unoccupied and unrenovated section of the Union Wadding Mill in Pawtucket burns. So sad to see another mill building lost to fire. Story and video at ProJo Photos at...
A New Vision for Kennedy Plaza
A number of people have been working on this for some time, I’ve been to a few charrettes and meetings, and the vision is pretty exciting, take a look at the videos and express what you think in the comments:...
New York\’s Quality of Life Agenda
Yes, yes, I know. Providence is not New York, it is hard to compare. But all of these initiatives are things that can and should be scaled to Providence. Look at this Times Square statistic again, there was a ten-to-one...
