2008 will be long remembered for some seriously miserable economic events. One local bright spark in 2008, however, has been the quiet opening of some seriously interesting food and dining establishments. Ebisu, United...
Category - Retail Updates
Bret AncowitzRetail Update: Jac’s Wraps Coming to Medical Campus
The Pearl Street Cafe, which recently closed, was an old wooden structure that had an isolated location in back of RI Hospital and Women and Infant’s Hospital. Despite the location, it always seemed quite busy...
Retail Update: Pleasant Surprise, Thayer
I thought I would quickly add that Pleasant Surprise, which I wrote previously was coming to Thayer Street is now open and the store, at 297 Thayer Street (where Oop! and Only in RI used to be), looks quite bright...
Retail Update: New Wayland Square Vacancies
Photo by Bret Ancowitz A quick walk through Wayland Square revealed three new storefront vacancies faster than you can say, “national economic calamity:” Liberty Travel: This very high profile site (corner...
Retail Update: Retail Update
OPEN: Plaid and Stripe – Wayland Square This is an upscale pet store in the former Ruggieri Gallery near Farmstead on Wayland Avenue between Waterman and Angell. (Update) COMING SOON (Confirmed!): Pleasant...
Retail Update: United BBQ, Ives Street
Providence’s restaurant scene continues to, out of the blue, get more interesting and less New-American/Italian dominated (see the Chinese Laundry, the crepe place on Weybosset, and Tini’s) with the opening...
Engel & Volker (Who?) Comes to PVD
All of the rumors (from good sources) about what was going into the former Delkin’s Cleaners at 9 Wayland Ave (restaurant? accounting firm? deli?) all turned out to be wrong. Judging from some slick signage up on...
North Main Street Update
Most of this update regards the more strip-plaza-esque portion to the North of the above urban vista but, thankfully, most of this is good news: Urgent Care Opens: One element of healthcare delivery that has become a...
Curves Closes on Hope (and closes, and closes)
The “Curves for Women” exercise storefront on Hope Street near Lippett Park is now for rent. I’m not sure how long that’s been the case, but it got me to thinking about the types of retail we all...
