Preliminary plans for the Kinsley Building call for 44 apartments in the upper floors with shops and or restaurants at ground level.
Historic photo of the Kinsley Building
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Nordblom Company and Cornish Associates are pleased to announce their joint purchase of the historic Providence Journal Building located at 75 Fountain Street in the heart of downtown Providence, Rhode Island.
A painted sign at Noon Design on Weybosset Street and the Kinsley Building on Westminster Street are featured on this month's DRC agenda.
Cornish Associates has been hired to redevelop the Industrial Trust Tower at 111 Westminster St. in downtown Providence and turn the city's tallest building into apartments, Cornish president and CEO Arnold "Buff" Chace...
Jef Nickerson
Greater City Providence
Thanks Jef. I was wondering if you could share what percentage of residents living in Cornish Associates properties are living there car free.
I don’t think we have actual numbers on that, but there is limited parking available to tenants.
Thanks. So many developments similar to Cornish’s fail to gain political support because neighbors wail about the supposed traffic they would cause. It would be nice to show that developments such as those offered by Cornish can attract residents whose transportation footprint is small and, consequently, offer proof that higher density development will not result in the ten plagues descending upon us.
It’s exciting to see they aren’t trying to go for more luxury type apartments, it’ll be interesting to see what the rents will end up being.
Also hopefully one day it won’t be almost completely surrounded by surface parking.
This is exciting. Carfree (or low car), affordable apartments in downtowns really are a great idea. I hope the plan holds to that.
Hi Jef, any renderings? Not that I’m into that sort of thing…
full disclosure: I wouldn’t be mad if someone decided to re-design that first floor facade at all <3
There’s no renderings but the project received historic tax credits and a renovation of the ground floor facade will be part of that. What it will look like will likely depend a lot on what is found underneath the mess that is on there now. Historically it looked like this:
Oh my gosh I cannot believe someone chose to cover that up.. it must have been during the 80s
Damn, that’s a good looking ground floor. Thanks, Jef.
I don’t see anywhere in this post that said they would be affordable?