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Urban League, Hospital, other plans discussed at South Providence Neighborhood Association meeting Providence’s South Side is going to see significant redevelopment in the coming months and years. With active projects at the Davey Lopes Recreation Center, Flynn Elementary School site, and Crossroad’s Pine Street and Summer Street apartments, in addition to ambitious planning that is…
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The Providence Redevelopment Agency has been authorized to pay extra storage fees for the bridge, leading to questions about the agency’s procurement policies As part of a swath of improvements coming to the Woonasquatucket River Greenway, the City is planning to install a pedestrian bridge near Sims Avenue to allow walkers and cyclists to more…
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The Women’s Development Corporation’s (WDC) preliminary plan for a five-story apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue was approved at last week’s City Plan Commission (CPC) meeting. The building will have 44 affordable units for individuals and families making at or below 80% of the area median income (AMI). The ground floor will also feature around 1,700…
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The City Plan Commission (CPC), a citizen board “charged with developing the city’s plans for preservation, revitalization, and growth of the city,” met on the evening of March 18. Two projects were discussed — here’s the latest, for those who could not attend. 220 Blackstone: Marathon Development Major Changes Approved The CPC considered and approved changes…
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Once again a Providence artist–maker community is faced with destruction, as the much-loved Atlantic Mills in Olneyville, the Big Top, changes hands. We’ve been here plenty of times in the past. In the mid-1980s the owners of Pilgrim Mills at 101 North Main Street shuttered the decrepit building, closing the studios that had been occupied…
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After months of deliberations, the 195 District Commission has selected the Providence Art and Design Center proposal from Ionic Development Co. and Wade Keating Architects. The distinctive faux-townhouse building, with a mix of roughly 150 apartments and 25 condominiums, beat out proposals from Bluedog Capital Partners and Transom Real Estate. The commission passed a resolution…
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The 269 Wickenden project has been given approval to proceed by the City Plan Commission (CPC) after two years of intense redesigns, legal action, and community opposition. The proposal for a mixed-use, 74-unit apartment building on Wickenden Street has been mired in controversy since its master plan application in 2023. Many neighbors have decried the…
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‘This entire building is threading the needle through very small eyes,’ Deputy Planning and Development Director Bob Azar said. Tensions ran high at the nearly five-hour City Planning Commission (CPC) meeting the evening of Jan. 21 — the preliminary plan for 269 Wickenden Street, a controversial five-story proposal at the corner of Brook and Wickenden,…
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