So I (well, not I, it’s from the email list, not a personal message) get this email from the Mayor: Dear friends of Providence, Today I made a decision that will allow me to place all of my focus and energy on...
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Jef Nickerson
BDH Would Love a Chipotle…
View Larger Map The editorial page for the Brown Daily Herald has a great suggestion for the now closed Roba Dolce spot on Thayer Street – a Chipotle… “Wait!” you might say. “Isn’t...
Bret Ancowitz
Video: Potholidence
Traffic navigating the potholes on Dean (more pothole than) Street this afternoon. Some still photos after the jump:
Gallery Night season starts next week
Though it’s been pouring down snow all day, a sure sign of spring is that the 2009 Gallery Night season starts next week, Thursday March 19th. The Gallery Night information center and Art Bus depot has moved this...
Retail Update: Whoa! Cold Stone Creamery Downtown
I was walking on Westminster last night and noticed a Cold Stone Creamery sign up at the Tim Horton’s coffee location at the intersection with Dorrance. A quick Google search confirmed that the two companies...
Vaporscraper: Imperial Place
Rendering from Churchill and Banks It’s hard to know how close this project ever came to reality, but anything remotely like it in this economic climate seems impossibly far off… What was it?: The Churchill...
Around the Web…
There have been a few interesting stories in and around the web of late. Here are a few: – Smallest State Grapples With Oversize Problems: I don’t know how I missed this, but the NY Times recently had an...
Freight Rail First
Phillip Longman of Washington Monthly has a great article discussing how getting tractor trailer trucks off of our highways and the cargo they carry onto expanded freight rail should be a top national infrastructure...
Post blizzard sidewalks
This morning’s sidewalks are rather typical in the cycle of snow removal in Providence. Every year I rant, and every year a large part of that rant is the fact that the sidewalks at Garibaldi Park on Atwells...
Downcity Design Review Committee Meeting (03/09)
NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING • MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2009 • 4:45 PM Department of Planning and Development , 4th Floor Auditorium 400 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903 Opening Session Call to Order Roll Call...
New Pawtucket River Bridge
A new rendering of the new Pawtucket River Bridge has been released, all I can find online is the little image above that PBN had in their article. Talk of the bridge around the intertubes: The Bucket Blog: Bridge 550...
It’s an honor just to be nominated
Doing my civic duty to go vote for the Dose, what do I find?
Oh Dose, it’s on!
It’s Rhode Island, vote early and vote often
News & Notes
Here’s a few items that have landed in my inbox today. I don’t have the time now to digest them myself and post any thoughts on them, so they are presented here for your reading pleasure: From Dan...
Snowblogging: Blizzard!
Federal Street, Federal Hill Sutton Street Acorn Street Spruce Street DePasquale Plaza Atwells Avenue 7:30 this morning, the sidewalk at Angelo’s is shoveled and salted and basically down to pavement. Gold star...
Snowvlogging: Middle of the night edition
Snowvlogging: Middle of the night edition
Dear Mother Nature,
Thank you for the not having to work today.
Love,
Me
