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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 […]

CPC Agenda (04/22)

The City Plan Commission meets today at 4:45pm in the Planning Department’s 4th Floor Conference Room at 400 Westminster Street.
OPENING SESSION

Call to Order at 4:45 p.m.
Roll Call
Approval of Regular Meeting Minutes of March 18, 2008
DIRECTOR’S REPORT
MINOR SUBDIVISIONS

Case No. 08-009MI

GC:PVD Position on Vista Della Torre Zoning Hearing

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, April 8th at 7:30pm the Zoning Board of Review will hear a petition on variance for the project known as Vista Della Torre on Federal Hill.
TALON REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AND THE PROVIDENCE HOUSING AUTHORITY, PROPERTY OWNERS AND TALON REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, APPLICANT: 21 & 32 Federal Street at Bradford Street. The […]

April 8, Zoning Board of Review hearing on Vista Della Torre

The Vista Della Torre project will have a hearing at the Zoning Board of Review on Tuesday, April 8th at 7:30pm in the Probate Court Room, 5th Floor of Providence City Hall, 25 Dorrance Street.
TALON REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AND THE PROVIDENCE HOUSING AUTHORITY, PROPERTY OWNERS AND TALON REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, APPLICANT: 21 & […]

GC:PVD Comments on proposed rezoning in the Waterfront District

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To: Councilman Seth Yurdin
Cc: Mayor David Cicilline
Cc: Planning Director Thomas Deller
Cc: Councilman Cliff Wood
I am writing on behalf of Greater City: Providence in regards to the petition being heard by the City Council Ordinance Committee on Monday, March 3rd to change the zoning of Lots 344 and 345 on Zoning […]

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

Elmhurst Charrette

I received a postcard in the mail last week reminding me that the Providence Tomorrow Neighborhood Charrette for Elmhurst and Mt. Pleasant, my neighborhood, was this week. That’s right, February 25-27 at Triggs Memorial Golf Course. If you were wondering, here’s what you missed today:

Neighborhood Character 9-11am
Commercial Corridors 11:30am-1:30pm
Infrastructure 2-4pm
Livable […]

Public Works Committee to consider abandonment of part of Orange Street

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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 […]

aka The Tower of Terror II

Photo of Newport Collaborative rendering by Jef Nickerson for gcpvd.org
Last Tuesday the City Council’s Public Works Committee approved a request by Cranston developer Frank Zammiello to receive an underground easement below a portion of Bradford Street in order to build a condo project dubbed, Vista Della Torre. At the same meeting the Public Works Committee […]

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 […]

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