Won’t it be so cool when we can finally say that? On Thursday morning (weather permitting) the Iway project brings us another step closer. Video by Jef Nickerson From RIDOT: RIDOT is getting ready to open the next...
That’s the first of a number of banners being placed on the Peerless Building as retail signage for the tenants in the building. I love it. Nice big banners you can see from down the block. Yay!
Photo by joevare from Flickr Last week New York’s High Line Park opened to the public. Here’s a couple videos about the High Line, one from Wallpaper* Magazine: The other from New York Magazine: It would be...
If I were Mayor of Providence, and all the other mayors were coming to visit I would show them the following 10 sites (in no particular order), providing I was in a good mood: The gardens at South Side Community Land...
So this has been in the planning stages for the better part of forever it seems, and now I’m getting information from various sources that it is happening. On the West Side, residents will finally be able to get...
From the Providence Geeks: We’ve got a special Geek Dinner in store for June. AS220 Labs – the new “tech arm” of our gracious host AS220 – will be showing off what they’ve wrought in...
As I’m sure many walking or driving by have noticed, the sidewalk fronting mall CVS has opened at the Francis St/Memorial Blvd intersection. All of the J&W students who will be living at Capitol Cove will now...
Emmett Square | View Larger Map The city has a plan known as the Downtown Circulator (I think that’s what it is known as), which would make Weybosset and Empire Streets two-way, rebuild Fountain Street, and...
The Housing + Transportation Affordability Index has a number of tools for generating affordability maps. Above is the Providence Metropolitan Area CO2 use per acre (on right) versus CO2 use by household (left). I...
Notice of Regular Meeting • Tuesday, June 16, 2009 • 4:45pm Department of Planning and Development, 4th Floor Auditorium 400 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903 Opening Session Call to Order Roll Call...
We’ve been getting really pummeled in the national media of late. It seems every state (well, except for California) has had a newpaper write an article with the tone of, “You think our economy is bad, take...
We all knew this was coming eventually, but Brown and Johnson and Wales have now officially made their play for their piece of the coming 195 land. The Projo has the details about House Majority Whip Peter F...
Rhode Island Mall photo from www.artinruins.com The above is a title of an article by the always interesting Allison Arieff in her NY Times blog in which Arieff attends the 2009 International Council on Shopping Centers...
Due to open Saturday is an ice cream store on Atwells Avenue, in the location in the photo above at Dean and Atwells. The last tenant in here was Al & Betty’s which was a pretty good greasy spoon (good enough...
A while back Matt wrote a post about LED street lighting, cities such as New York; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Anchorage, Alaska have plans to implement LED street lighting. In the conversation I suggested that Providence...