The Teste Block, part of the ProvidenceG residential project on Dorrance Street at Weybosset Street has been unwrapped. And it appears to already have some graffiti on it. Sigh.

The Teste Block, part of the ProvidenceG residential project on Dorrance Street at Weybosset Street has been unwrapped. And it appears to already have some graffiti on it. Sigh.
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Teste Block at Dorrance and Weybosset Streets Last month the Old Narragansett Hotel Garage was wrapped in plastic and now looks gorgeous! Today the adjoining Teste Block Building is getting wrapped and I can’t...
Big wrapper on the old Narragansett Hotel Garage points to progress on renovating the building.
The Teste Block, the Narragansett Hotel Garage, and the Providence Gas Company Building are all on the DRC Agenda on August 15th.
Yeh, it’s infuriating. I have some tags that I have to paint over on the woodwork of our building tomorrow. The Mayor’s Grafitti Patrol has removed two major — illegible, so what’s the point? — tags from our 120 year-old brick. Sigh, indeed.
But here’s the upside: I’ve been waiting for the wrapping to come off that building on DOrrance and look at the splendid windows they’ve saved(?), restored(?) had put in (?)!! That’s a major civic improvement.
As opposed to the work of the grafitto barbarians.