Jef Nickerson
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Jef is Greater City Providence's co-founder, editor, and publisher. He grew up on Cape Cod and lived in Boston; Portland, Maine; and New York before settling in Providence. In addition to urbanism, Jef is interested in art, design, and ice cream. Please feel free to contact Jef if you have any question or comments about Greater City Providence.
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By the way, as of lunchtime, the building was gone. Johnson & Wales is projecting Mid-November 2013 as the completion date of their garage, which seems a really long time away to me for some reason.
That does seem like a REALLY long time to build a parking garage, even if the lower level is actual retail space.
Unless we have an unusually warm winter again, at this point or at least in the next couple of weeks (which is also very close to the holidays) they probably have to wait until March to pour foundations. That would be about eight months to construct the building. If the garage decks and ramps are pre-cast concrete, erection should be fairly fast. The completion date may not be that unreasonable, since the rendering shows a considerable amount of brick plus there is the ground floor retail.