ProJo: Developer considers mixed-use plan for Louttit site in S. Providence

Site of former Loutit / What Cheer Steam Laundry

A Rhode Island development firm has plans for a $10-million mixed-use project on a vacant South Providence industrial site.

Bourne Avenue Capital Partners, an offshoot of New England Construction Co. Inc., of East Providence, wants to undertake the project on land that for decades was home to the Louttit Laundry operation. The last portion of the long, two-story Louttit building was demolished in 2008.

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Sluter envisions a multi-story building ranging from 35,000 to 50,000 square feet with ground-floor commercial space and 30 to 45 apartments on the upper floors. He has a tentative agreement with a food cooperative to be the first-floor anchor tenant.

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After a 2001 fire, the Loutit / What Cheer Steam Laundry building was demolished 2008. Plans for redevelopment of the site were proposed by SWAP and WBNA and probably others, but the recession laid waste to all plans.

[alert type=”muted”]See also: ArtInRuins: Loutit / What Cheer Steam Laundry[/alert]