The Better World Challenge breaks free from this bubble with a design competition addressing high-impact social issues. Open to all students, the challenge takes the Better World by Design conference beyond the weekend...
Category - Colleges/Universities
City Plan Commission Meeting, March 15
Providence City Plan Commission Meeting, March 15.
City Plan Commission Meeting, Feb. 15
NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2011, – 4:45 PM Department of Planning and Development, 4th Floor Auditorium 400 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903 OPENING SESSION Call to Order Roll Call...
Progress Photos: Brown University Alpert Medical School
The Brown University Alpert Medical School is coming along nicely.
Hey! We’re wicked smaht!
Rob Pitingolo has run an analysis of the 50 largest metro areas in the country measuring the density per square miles of college graduates*. Providence comes out looking pretty damn smart according to this metric...
Johnson & Wales scales back plans for Route 195 land
Johnson & Wales University has scaled back their plans for land to be vacated by the removal of Route 195, according to the Providence Journal. The University originally sought 4 acres of the Route 195 land for...
Building Brown… and URI… and RIC
One of our Facebook fans shared this link with us. A 40-minute video of Brown University’s assistant vice president for planning, design and construction, Michael McCormick discussing Browns recent campus building...
RIAC Intermodal Facility naming contest for college and university students
Colleges and Universities Invited to Participate in Intermodal Marketing Contest Rhode Island Airport Corporation Launches Contest Warwick, Rhode Island ( March 3, 2010) – The Rhode Island Airport Corporation...
So what’s the deal with these bridge signs?
Reader submitted photo I noticed this sign a couple weeks ago and forgot about it until a reader sent in a photo of it. These signs appear on either side of Weybosset Street outside the RISD Mason/Fletcher Building. It...
Building Brown
ProJo takes a look at Brown’s scaled back development plans for Providence. Let’s take a closer look at the actual projects. Creative Arts Center Rendering view from Olive Street, from Building Brown...
Brown University Alpert Medical School
Rendering from Brown University by Ellenzweig Associates The Corporation of Brown University met on Saturday and approved plans for the renovations of 222 Richmond Street in the Jewelry District turning the building...
AP Picks Up Capitol Cove Story
As found on a Pennsylvania TV station’s website, it looks like the Associated Press has picked up on the condos-to-dorm tale of Capitol Cove. They have in the article some similar examples from around the country...
Brown Medical School to Relocate to Jewelry District
View Larger Map Brown University seems to have finally chosen the future location of its Medical School. Currently shoehorned into its BioMed Building, the University initially decided that despite the 100 million...
More on Capitol Cove
Recently we speculated about the rumor running around town that Johnson & Wales had bought the (not yet complete) Capitol Cove condominiums on Canal Street in Capital Center. Today we have a copy of Johnson &...
Brown sells iconic Old Stone Bank Building
View Larger Map PBN reports that Brown University has sold the iconic Old Stone Bank Building on South Main Street to a private developer (Gold Dome Properties LLC) for $2.14 million. Brown acquired the property in 1995...
Brown Med School Building Canceled, Other Changes…
The Brown Daily Herald reports on changes decided by Brown this past weekend to adjust to the current economic woes, including the cancelation of construction of a new Medical School building in the Jewelry District...
The Sincerest Form of Flattery…
I absolutely love reading the Brown Daily Herald (BDH) newspaper. It offers the comprehensive (and often refreshingly critical) Brown community news and opinion you would expect while also delivering numerous and...
Paolino For Non-Profit Expansion into 195 Land
Joseph R. Paolino Jr., real estate owner, developer, former Providence mayor, and, um, surface parking lot magnate has weighed in on the issue of developing the soon-to-be-available 195 land. In a published letter to...