Image from Google StreetView PBN reports that Curt Schilling’s controversial 38 Studios company will be calling One Empire Plaza home. One Empire is located at the corner of Empire and Washington across from AS220...
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Jef NickersonWhere the Ocean State Aquarium Should Be
Ted Nesi over at WPRI just posted some analysis on Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Moffitt’s proposed aquarium. An aquarium in Rhode Island rivaling the Georgia Aquarium, in Atlanta, in size has been a...
Where’d everyone go?
This interactive map from Forbes shows inward and outward migration patterns for United States counties in 2008. So if you’re wondering where everyone went, now you know.
Greater City ProvidenceAlso starring Providence as Philadelphia
That pilot that was shooting in town a few months ago got picked up for the fall by ABC. Called Body of Proof, it looks dreadful; trailer: I’m all for the economic development that filming in Rhode Island brings...
Casino urbanism
Truth be told, I’d rather we not have any casinos in New England. But I have said in the past, if Rhode Island were to legalize casinos, I would want to see one built in Providence rather than expansion in Lincoln...
Big East to stay in Providence
Gateway Center in 2005, prior to the construction of Waterplace and BCBS, photo by Jef Nickerson There has been some concern recently that The Big East Conference which was formed in Providence in 1979 was preparing to...
Maddow, Rep. Defazio (D-OR) discuss infrastructure jobs
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Rep. Defazio joins Rachel at about the 4:40 mark in the video above. Defazio points to stimulus spending on infrastructure is producing the most...
So what is going on with Struever Bros.?
June 27, 2013: Brown letter to campus regarding South Street Power Station project So ProJo reported on their blog yesterday and in print today that Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse has left Rhode Island and pulled...
It is already better than it was. Dean Street.
Work has begun on Dean Street, praise Maude! So I’m not at all sure what is up here, the Stimulus sign went up the other day and work began in earnest today. The Mayor asked for $10million for 18 miles of sidewalk...
People Not Moving…
The New York Times has a thought provoking article about how the image to the left is becoming a rare site in the US, as the numbers of people moving fall to absolute numbers not seen since WWII (when the country had...
Bret AncowitzGet your stimulus on (or not)
Stimulus, Stimulus, Stimulus!!! My email’s been jammed with all manner of Senate Stimulus information. I’ve had no time to digest it all so excuse me while I throw a few things against the wall here and...
Detroit (Bob Lutz, at Least) Hints at Need for Gas Tax
The blunt and effective Robert Lutz of General Motors, an executive who inspires both love (he’s a product genius and calls things as he sees them) and hate (he bluntly calls things as he sees them, even when...
Rachel Maddow, Paul Krugman, and Infrastructure
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Also, Bloomberg.com reports that road projects seem to be stepping to the front of the line for stimulus funding. Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) —...
