Don’t miss the last show of the SUMMER SEASON! Don’t let the morning showers fool you – great forecast for tonight as Mark Cutler and the Men of Great Courage & Sara Azriel take the Burnside Stage...
Category - Parks/Open Space
Greater City Providence
Jef NickersonRibbon-Cutting of Burnside Park ‘Imagination Station’ – August 22, 2013
Ribbon-Cutting by Mayor Taveras of the new ‘Imagination Station’ in Burnside Park kicks off a day of events. Mayor Angel Taveras, the Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy and Southwest Airlines will unveil...
Barry Schiller: Providence Planning Hosts Meeting on Kennedy Plaza, Downtown Circulation
[alert type=”warning”]Barry Schiller, a retired Rhode Island College math professor, is a long-time member of the State Planning Council’s Transportation Advisory Committee. He also was on the RIPTA...
Guest PostKennedy Plaza/Circulator Phase 3 Informational Meeting – July 10, 2013
The City will be having an informational meeting about proposed enhancements and reconfiguration of the Kennedy Plaza area as well as details about Phase 3 of the Downtown Circulator project. The Circulator project...
Summer Solstice Celebration on the Plaza! – June 22, 2013
Summer is here and so is the 2nd Annual Summer Solstice Celebration on the Plaza! Help us kick off the season with an all day celebration in Greater Kennedy Plaza – with special musical guests Family of the Year...
Shakespeare in the Park at Roger Williams National Memorial
The Rhode Island Shakespeare Theater (TRIST) is bringing Shakespeare’s perennial favorite, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to Roger Williams National Memorial on North Main Street in Providence for a...
Kennedy Plaza fly through
This video rendering shows what the vision for Greater Kennedy Plaza could look like as you move through it.
A Greater Kennedy Plaza
Rendering from Union Studio Architects [box style=”alert”]Update (Apr. 22): Union Studio News: Greater Kennedy Plaza[/alert] The Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy (DPPC) is set to unveil plans for the...
Brown Daily Herald: Construction changes plans for park on Providence River
Seven years after initial plans were drafted to develop a park along the west waterfront of the Providence River, recent construction in the Jewelry District — including several University buildings — has altered those...
Reader Submission: Unpaved Smith Hill
In response to recent discussions on parking at the State House reader Nicolas R. Mariscal submits a Photoshop rendering (above) of what the State House area could look like with better land use planning.
PBN: I-195 Commission approves plans for new park
The design, approved by commissioners Monday, includes a mix of lawns, paths and public gathering areas in land between Peck, Dyer and Ship streets that was once covered by the old highway overpass.
A Spooky (but Not So Scary) Storytime Event at Burnside Park – October 27, 2012
Grab your hats and tick-or-treat baskets – fall festivities have arrived in Greater Kennedy Plaza! On Saturday, October 27th we are thrilled to host the first-ever Spooky (but Not So Scary) Kidoinfo Storytime & Haunted...
2012 Rhode Island statewide ballot questions
Here are the statewide questions on the November 6th ballot.
FirstWorks Festival in Kennedy Plaza, September 29
Saturday, September 29th, FirstWorks will transform Greater Kennedy Plaza. Bandaloop (shown in the video above) performing acrobatics off the side of Providence’s iconic Downtown skyline buildings will be one of...
Channel 10 reports on the Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy
The embed auto-plays which I find exceedingly annoying, so here is a link.
Full disclosure, I am a member of the Board of the Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy.
“Noon Tunes” Thursdays in September at Burnside Park
“Noon Tunes” in Burnside Park starts today and continues every Thursday in September – 12pm-1pm. This summer GKP teamed up with Brown Student and Community Radio to bring summer jams, international beats...
Playful Providence, September 7-9
Children’s Museum and Partners Present ‘Playful Providence’ A Citywide Celebration of Play | September 7 – 9, 2012 PROVIDENCE, RI – The city of Providence was recently honored as a “Playful...
