FooFest – August 14th: Over 20 art installations and creative activities. [FooFest] Maker Faire Rhode Island – August 28th: Celebrate New England D.I.Y! Featuring hands-on making, building & hacking...
Category - News & Notes
Greater City ProvidenceNews & Notes
[Boston] Public food market gets $10m promise [Boston.com] The Boston Public Market will be located along the Greenway in a building close to the location of the current Haymarket. The market is expected to be open in...
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Efficient Public Transit Key Part of Healthy Environment [ecoRI] No More Pavement! The Problem of Impervious Surfaces [The Earth Institute at Columbia University] Work on new Sakonnet River Bridge a month ahead of...
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Preserving modernism in Boston: making the case [Boston.com] Andrew Knee: Milwaukee – A Walker’s Paradise [UrbanOut] “And the latest venture is a broad swath of land called the Park East, where a...
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Investment in Transportation Changes is Tough Hill to Climb [Coalition for Transportation Choices] Charlotte does light rail right [Grist] Can infrastructure-led growth save the economy? [Salon] Mixed-Use Downtown...
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Providence office vacancy rates rise [Providence Business News] Blue Cross move to new HQ opens up space downtown Providence Restaurant Weeks [GoProvidence] Safe passing in RI: Frank’s Law [Car-Free in PVD] FAA...
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State of Maine on board with high-speed rail; upgrade work on the popular Downeaster begins [FastLane USDOT] Too hot to cook? A few heat-wave recipes [Projo Subterranean Homepage News] Hours extended for Providence...
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Mass. Senate approves bill licensing 3 casinos [ProJo] The bill includes an ammendment allowing Fall River to develop a casino on 300 acres of land at the northern edge of the city. Here in Rhode Island, Gordon Fox is...
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Georgetown’s ‘Social Safeway’ is a monument to changing supermarket architecture [The Washington Post] New grocery store is built on the second floor, with street level retail screening a parking...
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CTC Backs Emergency Transportation Funding [GrowSmartRI] Rhode Island Community Food Bank kicks off summer food drive [RI Community Food Bank] SoundSession music fest set for July [ProJo] Can a cleantech incubator grow...
Jef NickersonNews & Notes
Mass. buys more South Coast rail tracks [PBN] Gov. Patrick pledges to have rail service running between New Bedford/Fall River and Boston by 2016. The UnCaucus schedules a series of one-on-one coffees with the mayoral...
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2 year closure of Union Avenue Bridge over Route 10 prompts free RIPTA service for pedestrians impacted by closure [ProJo]. With Route 18 only running 17 times on weekdays and not at all on Sundays and Holidays...
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The Providence Children’s Museum is set to open great new outdoor playspaces on Friday. Visit their blog to see photos and videos of the construction. Also more information from their press room, here. Providence...
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Proposed Fox Point mural sparks controversy “It was ghetto stuff,” says George Goulart, owner of Aqua-Life Aquarium, a Wickenden Street store adorned by a coral reef-themed mural. “That was not the...
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Developer Conley sets sights on medical facility for his Providence waterfront land [ProJo] I don’t really understand why a medical complex would want to locate itself on this site. The future zoning is still very...
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Washington, DC expands bike sharing program [Good] U.S. Sec. of Transportation Ray LaHood turned transportation policy on its head with a declaration that pedestrians and cyclists should be treated as equals with...
This & That
Hot, Hot, Hot I went to the mall today and walked across the skybridge. It was easily 110° in there. I forget, is the skybridge at all climate controlled? It was so hot I was halfway across and started to wonder if...
Around the Web…
There have been a few interesting stories in and around the web of late. Here are a few: – Smallest State Grapples With Oversize Problems: I don’t know how I missed this, but the NY Times recently had an...
Bret Ancowitz
