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Jef Nickerson
Google Street View documents the Parking-lot-ification of Providence
Daily Dose showed off the Big Blue Bug in Google Street View on their site. It never even occurred to me that one could embed a Street View image. So, please to enjoy, the Parking-lot-ification of Providence: Old Public...
This is how people get killed by snowplows
Atwells Avenue, December 20, 2007. This is my walk to work. The City came out yesterday and moved the snow/ice from the parking lane and piled it up on the sidewalk (a city owned sidewalk). So a week after the Storm of...
OK, let’s talk about the snow
Atwells Avenue at the Service Road, Friday morning December 14th. In case you weren’t aware of it, it snowed last Thursday. Depending on who’s counting we got between 7 inches and a foot in Providence...
UrbanPlanet Party Postponed
Blizzard of ’78 file photo from Providence Journal Do to the impending Storm of the Century!, the UrbanPlanet Holiday Gathering scheduled for tonight has been postponed. We will be making plans to reschedule the...
UrbanPlanet|Providence 2nd Annual Holiday Gathering (Dec. 13th)
One of my other hats is being the Moderator at the UrbanPlanet Rhode Island forums. Last year we had a great Holiday Gathering at the Red Fez, this year we’re moving it to the West Side and meeting up at...
TONIGHT: Waterfront Symposium at Save The Bay HQ
Providence River from New Providence River Bridge. Tonight at Save The Bay’s headquarters a group of RISD students will present their findings on recent research of waterfront cities. From The Providence Journal:...
Future Development of the Jewelry District and the Old Harbor Area
Jewelry District and Providence skyline from new Providence River Bridge. From the Downtown Providence website: The Jewelry District Association and The Providence Foundation invite you to an “Open House”...
Providence Wintertime Farmers’ Market starts this Saturday!
AS220 will be hosting a Farmers’ Market this winter in their space on Empire Street. The Providence Wintertime Farmers’ Market will take place inside AS220 at 115 Empire Street Saturday’s from 12:00...
Spring tree planting application deadline, December 1st
Information from the Providence Neighborhood Planting Program: For Providence residence who wish to have street trees-the deadline for spring planting applications is December 1, 2007. Applications must be postmarked by...
City Survey about the City
The city has a survey online about, well, the city: The City of Providence is conducting research about residents’ perceptions of the city. Your input in this process is important in helping the City understand...
Pratt Street Overnight On-Street Parking Forum
From the Citizens for Resident Permit Parking This meeting is to address a petition from Pratt Street. A majority of residents on Pratt have agreed that they would like to try a one year trial for premit parking. A...
Craftland!
Craftland is back, running December 1st though 22nd with an Opening Party November 30th. Craftland is an annual holiday sale in Providence, RI that celebrates all kinds of handmade objects and the people who make them...
Next GC: Exchange – Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Our next Greater City: Exchange meeting is next Tuesday, September 11th. We’ll be meeting at 5:30pm at Ada’s Creations 1137 Broad Street in Elmwood on the city’s South Side. RIPTA: Route 11 Our special...
Greater City Providence
Paved paradise…
WBNA and CHNA lost their appeal today to keep the Old Public Safety Complex from being demolished, and not more than half an hour after the verdict was reached, the wrecking ball went to work, ProJo has the story here...
Comment on the Old Public Safety Complex
Workers removing decorative facade elements from the Old Public Safety Complex on July 12, 2007. Dear Members of the Providence ZBR: Greater City Providence writes today to vigorously oppose The Procaccianti...
