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Pawtucket River Bridge Update

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Frymaster over at The Bucket Blog has the scoop about last night’s meeting regarding the Route 95 Pawtucket River Bridge. I meant to post about this meeting, but neglected to get to it, sorry. You may recall, the Pawtucket River Bridge was recently put on a 22-ton weight limit with trucks encourage to […]

PADS General Meeting (02/07)

Photo by Jef Nickerson for gcpvd.org
Pawtucket Alliance for Downtown Success (PADS) are holding a general meeting on February 7th in Downtown Pawtucket:
PADS General Meeting
Thursday, February 7
Refreshments @ 6:30pm / Meeting @ 7:00pm
at Machine with Magnets 400 Main Street, Pawtucket
RIPTA
It has been a while since we all met! As we begin 2008, Downtown Pawtucket faces […]

2007 RI Statewide Historic Preservation Conference in Pawtucket

Pawtucket: what’s it like?… find out at the RI Statewide Historic Preservation Conference in PAWTUCKET on Saturday, April 14. The conference is a great chance to walk and talk Pawtucket all day long. Walking tours will stroll Downtown, the Exchange Street historic district, and Pawtucket hydroelectric facilities past, present, and future. Bus tours will visit […]

Pawtucket train station update

A couple recent newspaper articles about the future of the Pawtucket-Central Falls Train Station:
Court battle over train station is on hold The Providence Journal
Truce offers hope for preserving Pawtucket Train Station The Phoenix
Interesting development regarding Amtrak, from The Journal article:
The city claimed its position got a boost last week when officials from Amtrak, […]

Demolition of the Pawtucket train station started today!

UPDATE: The Pawtucket Foundation has posted some updated information on their website.
PADS has the full story. Earlier today Bilray Demolition Co. started demolishing a portion of the Pawtucket-Central Falls Train Station after obtaining a permit from the city of Central Falls. This a day after an engineering firm hired by the City of Pawtucket determined […]

Pawtucket-Central Falls Train Station threatened

The future of Pawtucket-Central Falls train station has been the subject of much debate over the last several years. Currently the owner, Oscar “Ike” Seelbinder, has plans to demolish a large portion of the historic structure to build a CVS pharmacy.
On Wednesday, December 6th at 7:00pm local residents can express their dismay about […]

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