View Larger Map Acorn Street at Spruce Street, Federal Hill I was walking down Spruce Street last night in the rain to go to the new Walgreens at 333 Atwells to buy some ice cream, when I realized something was missing...
Category - Buildings
Jef NickersonHampton Inn Construction
Photos from Monday, February 18th of construction of the new Hampton Inn at the old St. Francis Chapel on Weybosset Street.
Demolition = Hotel Sierra
Demolition started today at the future site of the Hotel Sierra on Washington Street. Here we go again, more demolition. This building at Washington and Beverly is known (depending on your dining/drinking habits) as the...
aka The Tower of Terror II
Photo of Newport Collaborative rendering by Jef Nickerson for gcpvd.org Last Tuesday the City Council’s Public Works Committee approved a request by Cranston developer Frank Zammiello to receive an underground...
Ugh, Grove Street School
I don’t even want to talk about it. Just go here to read the Journal article. Related: Greater City Providence: Grove Street School partial demolition Greater City Providence: A short history of the Grove Street...
Fruit & Produce Warehouse updates
Video from ABC6. Also, RIFuture weighs in with, Something Stinks in Providence.
Yes, you can haz demo permit
From ProJo 7to7 Daily News Blog Judge says developer can demolish historic food terminal PROVIDENCE – A judge has ruled that Carpionato Properties can knock down the food and produce terminal on Harris Avenue...
Fruit and Produce safety hazard
Read today’s article from The Providence Journal and prepare for your brain to explode. Some choice nuggets from the article: Carpionato had agreed to buy the warehouse from the state for $4.3 million in 2005, a...
Building Providence
Street View is fun, let’s look at some of what Street View caught Providence building: RISD Chace Center View Larger Map Capitol Cove View Larger Map Waterplace View Larger Map Renaissance Providence Hotel |...
Paved paradise…
WBNA and CHNA lost their appeal today to keep the Old Public Safety Complex from being demolished, and not more than half an hour after the verdict was reached, the wrecking ball went to work, ProJo has the story here...
Comment on the Old Public Safety Complex
Workers removing decorative facade elements from the Old Public Safety Complex on July 12, 2007. Dear Members of the Providence ZBR: Greater City Providence writes today to vigorously oppose The Procaccianti...
East Side graffiti clean-up results
Saturday the 14th The College Hill Neighborhood Association, the District 9 Providence Police, the Providence Preservation Society, the Mayor’s Graffiti Task Force, and Councilmen Cliff Wood and Seth Yurdin...
Fire at Grove Street School
[box style=”red”]UPDATE 07/18: Sources state that the City has required the building’s owner, Michael Tarro “secure” the building within 7 days.[/alert] [box style=”red”]UPDATE...
DRC to review Fogarty Building demo – Monday, July 9, 2007
Rendering of 111 Fountain Street from The Procaccianti Group Tomorrow (Monday, July 9th), the Downcity Design Review Committee will consider a proposal by The Procaccianti Group (TPG) to demolish the Fogarty Building...
A short history of the Grove Street School
Grove Street School, in the middle of Providence’s Federal Hill neighborhood, one of many small neighborhood schools was built at the turn of the Century and was in use until sometime in the late 70s, early 80s...
Grove Street School partial demolition
Another week another illegal demolition in Greater Providence… Contractors showed up at the site of the Grove Street School early yesterday morning and began an illegal demolition. Neighbors alerted the...
Pawtucket train station update
A couple recent newspaper articles about the future of the Pawtucket-Central Falls Train Station: [alert type=”muted”] The Providence Journal: Court battle over train station is on hold The Phoenix: Truce...
Greater City Providence agrees with DRC decision to postpone approval of demolition
Last night the Downcity District Design Review Committee met to review applications by The Procaccianti Group of Cranston to demolish two Downcity buildings. The buildings in question being 111 Fountain Street (the...
Greater City Providence
