Grove Street School, in the middle of Providence’s Federal Hill neighborhood, one of many small neighborhood schools was built at the turn of the Century and was in use until sometime in the late 70s, early 80s...
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Jef Nickerson
Walkable
Image Carlos Lorenzo One of the key ingredients of an urban neighborhood is its walkability, the ease of walking from your home to almost everything you could possibly need or want to do outside of it. Walkable...
Jim Rizzo
Grove Street School partial demolition
Another week another illegal demolition in Greater Providence… Contractors showed up at the site of the Grove Street School early yesterday morning and began an illegal demolition. Neighbors alerted the...
Subterranean Homepage News
I was happy to finally meet Shelia Lennon of the ProJo Subterranean Homepage News Blog fame at the last Providence Geeks dinner. It was a pleasure finally speaking to her in person after trading messages and blog...
Dexter Training Ground Park Cleanup – January 7, 2007
Photo by B. Sachs [box style=”red”]Changed to Rain Date![/alert] [alert type=”muted”]Where: Dexter Training Ground Park (meet near the playground) When: This Saturday, January 6th Sunday, January...
Greater City Providence
Pawtucket train station update
A couple recent newspaper articles about the future of the Pawtucket-Central Falls Train Station: [alert type=”muted”] The Providence Journal: Court battle over train station is on hold The Phoenix: Truce...
Demolition of the Pawtucket train station started today!
[box style=”red”]UPDATE: The Pawtucket Foundation has posted some updated information on their website.[/alert] PADS has the full story. Earlier today Bilray Demolition Co. started demolishing a portion of...
Pawtucket-Central Falls Train Station threatened
The future of Pawtucket-Central Falls train station has been the subject of much debate over the last several years. Currently the owner, Oscar “Ike” Seelbinder, has plans to demolish a large portion of the...
Greater City Providence agrees with DRC decision to postpone approval of demolition
Last night the Downcity District Design Review Committee met to review applications by The Procaccianti Group of Cranston to demolish two Downcity buildings. The buildings in question being 111 Fountain Street (the...
Providence Needs Straphangers…
One thing that was obvious to almost everyone at the Providence Tomorrow charrettes was that few of the participants there for the transit forum were familiar with Providence’s (and RI’s) RIPTA public bus...
Bret Ancowitz
HOPE!
As one Greater City Providence member pointed out to me, my initial posts about Providence Tomorrow had something of a negative tone, and he wished to reassure me that things are actually looking quite hopeful. And you...
Long week, interesting week, informative week, fun week
The main sessions of the Providence Tomorrow charrettes are over. There’s a work session for Planning staff and the charrette facilitators Friday at 400 Westminster. The public is welcome to drop in, add more...
First impressions; ‘Providence Tomorrow’ Tuesday sessions
Wow. Huh. Hum… Those are the first words that pop into my head after participating in the first day of Providence Tomorrow planning charrettes. Not since medical school have I ever participated in an activity that...
Providence Tomorrow
The City of Providence has begun the process of updating its Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinance. The city has invited the public to be part of the process of re-evaluating the Comprehensive Plan, and started that...
