ProJo: The Arcade, the nation’s oldest indoor shopping mall, closed to the public this morning as its owners are preparing to transition the downtown landmark, which in recent years had been home to a handful of...
Category - Buildings
Jef NickersonNew Facility at the PVD VA Hospital
According to several media reports, the Providence Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital has just broken ground on a 6.1 million dollar Center for Restorative and Regenerative Medicine on the medical center’s Smith Hill...
Bret AncowitzPHOTOS: New Blue Cross Blue Shield RI Building
As Bret pointed out in his recent post, the Blue Cross Blue Shield building at Waterplace may be one of the last highrises we see going up for a while. So I stepped out the other day and took some photos of the progress.
This Old Downcity
Future home of Washington Trust Bank on Westminster Street at Orange Street. As Bret points out in his post about Blue Cross Blue Shield’s new HQ building, our nation’s (and state’s and city’s...
West River Center Complex United
The redeveloped West River Center, formerly the Rhode Island Tool Mill, is home to diverse number of tenants, ranging from the Secretary of State’s office, to a restaurant (the West River Cafe), to the medical...
IN PROGRESS: BCBS Building On Course
The ProJo had a quick blurb about the continuing progress on the Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI building downtown. The short article is just a brief recap, but it’s a great excuse for me to put a really nice photo...
Strange Buildings
Photo by Fin Fahey Sheila linked today to a great collection of strange buildings on Village of Joy. Check out the photos here, and while you look, think of all the people who would have strokes if any of these were...
N. Main Meeting “Take-Home” Points
As the phrase goes, we were at last night’s meeting so you didn’t have to be… All three speakers were excellent, but Christine Malecki West of Kite Architects in particular made three key points that...
MIT “Fab Lab” Coming to AS220 Downcity
The Providence Journal has an article about how AS220’s Mercantile Building downtown is eventually going to become the latest outpost of MIT’s Fabrication Technology Laboratory. The article is linked here...
YMCA to Move RI HQ to Olneyville
View Larger Map The Providence Journal has the story: “The YMCA of Greater Providence, which operates nine YMCAs throughout the state, is taking over and renovating the last remaining building in the former...
PROPOSED: Brown’s Creative Arts Center
Could this be the breakthrough building that RISD’s Chase Center was supposed to be? We’ll see… This coming week (details to follow) Brown will be having a public meeting where the architectural firm...
PBN on Preservation and Development
The Providence Business News has a great editorial calling for cooler heads and common sense when balancing historic preservation and economic development. They also call for the reinstatement of a meaningful historic...
Dunk 2.0
September 5th, I went to the Press Event for the re-opening of the Dunkin Donuts Center. Today I finally had the opportunity to download my photos:
No more free parking
From left, site of proposed but unbuilt Empire at Broadway, OneTen Westminster Street, and Grant’s Block David Segal rumors on Daily Dose that the Hotel Sierra, proposed for Washington Street is dead. David thinks...
Here today, gone today
This morning This afternoon This building at the corner of Atwells and Bond Street appeared to be having work done to it in recent weeks. As with the building next to it, all the windows were removed (in the building...
Proposed Marriott Residence Inn on Orange Street
Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Warwick Mall owner and former Cranston City Council President, Aram G. Garabedian and partners from Massachusetts and New Hampshire have proposed to build a Marriott...
For Sale: Slightly damaged school house
Update on the Grove Street School, after all the heartburn, seems the owners are now willing to sell: Dear Friends, This was sent today (May 5, 2008) from Deming Sherman regarding the court issues and purchase of Grove...
They’ll need a crane
The economy may be souring, but there are still a few projects underway in Providence. Monday I hit the streets and took some photos of three of them, the new Blue Cross Blue Shield Headquarters in Capital Center, the...
