Recently we speculated about the rumor running around town that Johnson & Wales had bought the (not yet complete) Capitol Cove condominiums on Canal Street in Capital Center. Today we have a copy of Johnson &...
Category - Buildings
Jef NickersonBrown sells iconic Old Stone Bank Building
View Larger Map PBN reports that Brown University has sold the iconic Old Stone Bank Building on South Main Street to a private developer (Gold Dome Properties LLC) for $2.14 million. Brown acquired the property in 1995...
Little Green Groundbreaking
Rendering from Kite Architects Last year the city held a design contest for environmentally sensitive, affordable homes in Providence. Local architect, Christine Malecki West was one of the winners. Today, ground is...
Demolition bonds
OneTen Westminster Street | Photo by Jef Nickerson Via Rep. Segal and the Providence Daily Dose: For any urbanists out there - The House Corporations Committee will be hearing legislation today to require that...
Woe is The Dunk
Yesterday’s Journal reported on the financial constraints at the Dunkin Donuts Center. While the shiny new Dunk opened to much fanfare and promises of increased income for the state (the Dunk’s owner) and...
“Forgotten Providence”
Photo by Stump Blankenship from Forgotten Providence This strange, sad, oddly compelling photo comes from Forgotten Providence a new-ish (?) blog documenting foreclosed properties in the city. I really don’t have...
Pretty // Ugly
This annoys me. This is a building at the corner of Atwells Avenue and Bond Street on Federal Hill. Most recently it was Federal Hill Florist and soon it is to be Cafe Longo. Now I’m happy to see a new cafe coming...
Sale of Westminster St. Building
View Larger Map According to the Projo Blog the building at 380 Westminster St has been sold to UrbanAmerica LP, of New York. The Projo article doesn’t mention if the current tenants (the IRS, bankruptcy court...
Matthew CoolidgeProJo property tour
Providence Business News reports on the properties that ProJo parent Belo is selling in the capital city. Through the magic of Google Street View, let’s take a little tour of the properties up for sale. View...
This Old Armory District
Photo © Psuedo_Work from Flickr This Old House names Providence’s Broadway-Armory District as one of the ten best places in the northeast to buy an old house. Why Buy Now? Along with reasonable prices...
Say (W)hat?
The W Hotel website lists Providence as Coming in 2010. It did not do this before. Last we heard, W was the hotel that was going to be at OneTen Westminster Street.
5W: Main Post Office Building
For the next installation in the “Who/What/Where/When/Why” (5W) feature reviewing aspects of Providence’s urbanism, history, architecture, and living, I decided that as the Main Post Office’s new...
Bret AncowitzWashington Trust
Washington Trust, Westminster Street. I am so pleased that Washington Trust has moved from their horrid suburban style branch on Washington Street, to this nice new urban storefront on Westminster Street (I’m...
Hampton Inn Progress
Hampton Inn & Streets on Weybosset Street. While of course I’m less than thrilled (to say the least) with Granoff for closing the Arcade, I must give credit where credit is due and say I’m really liking...
ProJo parent to liquidate real estate holdings
Ian reports that the Providence Journal’s parent company, A.H. Belo Corporation of Dallas is accepting proposals to buy the newspapers real estate assets, including the Fountain Street headquarters. The four...
Where … used to be
Photo © c. 1976 Jay Boersma, from Art In Ruins via Providence Daily Dose I shall now and forevermore refer to the empty lot where OneTen Westminster was supposed to be as where Mee Hong used to be. Via Providence...
Jen ColeMore Arcade Photos…
While there’s a good amount of news for me to post later, I thought that in the interim I would add to the avalanche of Arcade photos with two of my favorites from my own photography collection. Photos by Bret...
