Archive for the 'Downcity' Category

Greater Kennedy Plaza

Burnside Park, photo by Jef Nickerson for gcpvd.org
The city has been working in recent month on short term moves, and long term planning to improve what they are calling the Greater Kennedy Plaza area. That work has begun to manifest itself over recent weeks.
On Thursday’s in recent weeks, food has been served in Burnside […]

Providence Community Boating Renaissance Regatta

Image courtesy of Providence Community Boating Center website
The Providence Community Boating Center at India Point Park has announced its 2008 Renaissance Regatta Event. It will be held Thursday, July 24, 2008. From the CBC website:
Our annual Renaissance Regatta is a perfect opportunity to help a great Ocean State cause. Sponsors provide a team […]

Proposed Marriott Residence Inn on Orange Street

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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 Residence Inn on Clifford Street across from the Garrahy Courthouse (see above rendering and site plan). Residence Inn is an extended stay brand, more […]

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 Capitol Cove project also in Capital Center, and the Hampton Inn project at the St. Francis […]

TOMORROW 02/27 Kennedy Plaza Placemaking Workshop

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If I read my emails I’d have known about this sooner, but here it is now, better late than never I suppose. I’ve called to get on the list to go, sounds interesting. Will post about it tomorrow or Thursday.
Project for Public Spaces

Hampton Inn Construction

Photos from Monday, February 18th of construction of the new Hampton Inn at the old St. Francis Chapel on Weybosset Street.

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Photos by Jef Nickerson for gcpvd.org

Demolition = Hotel Sierra

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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 place where Cuban Revolution/Talk of the Town/New Japan used to […]

Public Works Committee to consider abandonment of part of Orange Street

Aerial image from LiveLocal
There is a petition to abandon a portion of Orange Street in Downtown which is on the agenda for the February 11, 2008 Providence City Council Committee on Public Works meeting.
2. Petition from Aram Garabedian, Manager, One Financial Center Plaza, LLC, 235 Waterman Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02906, requesting to […]

The Providence Eye

Rendering from Friedrich St. Florian Architect
Every great city boasts some iconic structure, often piercing the skyline, Paris has the Eiffel Tower, Boston has the Zakim Bridge, London has the London Eye, and soon Providence will have it’s own icon. This parking garage on Weybosset Street.
OK, I’m being a little silly, but putting aside for […]

Fruit and Produce safety hazard

Photo by Jef Nickerson for gcpvd.org
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 price $10 million below what the state paid for it only seven years before.
State officials and […]

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