Greater City Providence
Georgetown’s ‘Social Safeway’ is a monument to changing supermarket architecture [The Washington Post]
New grocery store is built on the second floor, with street level retail screening a parking garage.
Foreclosures point to waning of the suburban era, study says [New Urban News]
Development is shifting to cities more strongly than most Americans realize, a new book asserts.
Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia [TED Talk]
DOT, HUD team up on joint funding for coordinated housing and transportation planning [FastLane USDOT Blog]
PennDesign Studio’s $100,000,000,000 NEC High Speed Rail Plan [PennDesign]
(Connecticut) State shifting focus to mass transit [The Connecticut Mirror]
Think gas is too pricey? Think again. [The Washington Post]
Jef Nickerson
Having lived in DC for many years, I remember the Social Safeway. It wasn’t my local supermarket but I knew quite a few people who “shopped” there. Shopping was always a secondary activity.
This is somewhat dated blogpost. I believe it was designed to be LEED certified.
http://georgetownmetropolitan.com/2009/01/04/whats-in-store-for-social-safeway/
Some good video from the “grand opening” gala from Fox news. A couple of outside shots of the store about a minute into it. If only Providence could get this excited about an urban grocery store!
I still say the University Marketplace on N. Main could have contributed a lot more to the urban fabric connecting Benefit and Olney to N. Main and Doyle with a vision such as this the Safeway story. Bring the businesses to street level and hosting a rooftop garage would have been great!
Dan, your link wasn’t working. I found the video and embedded it in your post.
Thanks,
I noticed the link stopped at the apostrophe.