Greater City Providence

ProJo: Route 195 redevelopment panel hears pitch for life-science accelerator facility

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ProJo gets some info about what took place in “Executive Sesion.”

A lawyer, a doctor and an architect met behind closed doors Monday night with the Route 195 Redevelopment District Commission and Governor Chafee to pitch their idea to build a life-sciences accelerator in Providence with laboratories and all the co-working space necessary for 15 to 20 nascent companies to work at any given time to build their companies.

They foresee health care, information technology and diagnostic medical companies working together on the former highway land now available for development, in a building on the western side of the Providence River. It would also have room for lawyers, venture-capital investors and others who work with such companies, the three told reporters after meeting with the commission.

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