The 2019 MEP List was announced on Thursday, January 24 at the PPS Annual Meeting. Ten properties are listed this year spanning an impressive four centuries. Each year, PPS intends to use the list to draw positive attention to local endangered properties to hasten their restoration and minimize their threats. We encourage you to visit…
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As we journey forward into the new year, PPS is proud to continue our work to advocate for historic preservation and thoughtful design and planning in Providence. If you are particularly concerned about any preservation issues, please fill out this short survey! Your voice matters, and we’d like to hear what concerns you have for…
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The City Plan Commission found the zoning changes inappropriate. The City Council’s own Ordinance Committee voted against the changes–TWICE–following an unprecedented second public hearing to accommodate the developer’s schedule, or strategy. Mayor Elorza intervened with his veto power due to concerns over the project. And yet, on Thursday 10 members of the City Council overrode…
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Read Mayor Elorza’s statement on his veto of the Fane Tower proposal. We are pleased to announce that Mayor Elorza has vetoed the Fane Tower proposal! The Providence Preservation Society and all of the coalition members that have been speaking out against this short-sighted and destructive zoning change wholeheartedly thank the mayor for putting the…
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At a second reading of the petition on Tuesday, City Council voted 9-5-1 to approve the zoning changes requested by Jason Fane for his 46-story tower proposal at Parcel 42. This, in spite of impassioned pleas by Council Members Principe and LaFortune to their colleagues on the Council to change their minds and words of…
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The City Council Ordinance Committee met on November 8. They are sending a recommendation to the full Council to approve the Fane Organization’s rezoning request. City Council members Terry Hassett, Jo-Ann Ryan and Carmen Castillo cast positive votes. Council member Mary Kay Harris abstained and Council member Bryan Principe cast the lone nay vote. The…
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Landscape architect and director of the Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Ron Henderson, FASLA delivered the keynote address of the 2018 Providence Symposium. His talk on cultural landscapes included inspiration for his design of CityWalk. Henderson, with Phoebe Blake and Dan Baudouin, received the PPS Preservation Initiative Award for…
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Fane Tower returns to the City Council Ordinance Committee on Monday, October 22! Citizens, community leaders, and elected officials have all recognized why the zoning changes required for the proposed tower are not in the best interests of the city or its residents. The meeting takes place at 5:30 pm at the City Council Chamber….
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