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Also to counter one of the skeptics points, there's no question of the historical value of the station. According to RIHPHC's Pawtucket survey, it's listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

What a cool looking project! BTW, does anyone know anything about plans for the bank bldg two doors down from Grant? If you look at the photo you can see that this building has a beautiful copper dome but then a bland front. Did they cover up a nice historic facade to put up that front or did they destroy it?

Nice renderings: http://www.pawtucketfoundation.org/station/siteplan.html

Play on words--turn the dial to 10 and turn to 10 as you might turn to a trusted news source.

Hi daniellabella, It seems to me that Westminster would be a much better choice than Pearl St. You would much closer to Brown, making walking and biking easier. Walking from the Van Wickle gates to say the Shepard bldg is like 10 mins tops. You're also close to areas where you would want to run in such as College Hill and the rest of the East Side. Plus, I bet Brown saftey shuttle and safe walk covers downtown now given RISD's push into the area. Lastly, downtown is not a particularly dangerous place. However, you may want to stick to the Westminster/College St. corridor as opposed to using Kennedy Plaza. Others on this board may have better ideas about what routes to use. As far as Pearl St., it's in a pretty tough area though there are definitely tougher neighborhoods out there. You would have to negoitiate crossing 95 and unlike with Atwells, the crossing points south such as Broad St. are pretty deserted at night. On the plus side, though, you have a lot of good Asian markets and bodegas in the area not to mention the part of Westminster where White Electric is. Given your situation,though, I would only suggest Pearl St if you had access to a car.

Several years ago Fidelity was going to move into the Foundry complex but apparently got cold feet after dealing with Cianci. Pfizer also looked at Providence but opted not to set up when Cianci made all kinds of public statements when the deal was supposed to be secret. They went to New London instead. Almond was also to blame: he had it in for Buddy and he steered some of the big development projects outside of Providence.

Try this. HTML version. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:1F_xv...lient=firefox-a I agree that it's too bad that some of these big projects are suburban oriented but it could be much much worse. Thanks in part to the historic tax credits there is a lot of redevelopment going on in urban areas as well. Five years ago it would have been like 100% suburban.

Welcome. I don't know about the squirrels but you can get sash cord pretty easily at most hardware stores even, I hate to say it, Home Depot. An excellent place to get info on historian house stuff is the Revolving Fund of the Prov Preservation Society. THey even sell salvaged details at very low cost.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/p...efab&topic_set= Interesting article on prefab housing. It's not just Sears bungalows or trailers anymore. Could become a great solution for affordable in-fill housing when/if the costs come down.

Bummer. I heard a while ago that the anti-wind forces in MV were running into trouble because it turns out that a lot of people (myself included) actually think the turbines look cool. Then they shifted to the pseudo-environmental nonsense (such as the windmills will slice birds to pieces). Interestingly, Greenpeace has come out in favor of the Cape Wind project.

Antiwindmill NIMBYism spreads from Martha's Vinyard to Upstate NY. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,699...tw=wn_tophead_1

I found that Lavasoft works well to clean out spyware. Free download. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Enjoyed the shots. The Life Sciences bldg looks rather like a Christo project all wrapped up in tarps. I'm actually pretty excited by this bldg despite the virulent opposition to it by neighborhood critics. The Manchester Street power plant is one of my favorite Providence landmarks, particularly at night when you can see the constant warm glow through those colossal windows.

Totally agree. Soccer is a great way for people to use their local parks and feel a sense of ownership about them. One of the good things about India Point are the soccer games that bring big crowds. Soccer and other community uses helps to keep parks from becoming havens for drug dealers and prostitutes.

You'd think with all the really good projects that they could be a little more selective and not have to pad the list with a Tim Horton's drive thru. That's hardly anything to write home about. On another topic, I really like the render of the West Fountain St. project, which I guess has already cleared the Planning Commission.

Has this been posted already? Not a lot that I haven't heard of through UP, but a lot of renderings that I haven't seen before. http://www.providenceri.com/vision/A%20Vis...0Providence.pdf

At least a lot of the projects are in urban areas now. That definitely has a lot to do with the Historic Tax Credit. Check out these anti-sprawl sites: http://www.sierraclubri.org/sprawl/index.htm Scroll down and check out the "Nasty Nine." Nine biggest sprawl projects from 2000, though I'm still not convinced that a container port at Quonset would have been a bad idea. Also: http://www.growsmartri.com/

Wow. Thanks for the spreadsheet! RI's economy sure doesn't look bad when you look at that list. I couple of things I noticed: I had no idea that the tower to be built at the former Gulf Station was estimated to cost $200 mil. more than twice the cost of 110 Westminster. What's up with that? A few omissions: There are some pretty big ticket projects in Woonsocket whose names I don't remember. No Carpionato Produce Warehouse project, which has got to qualify as major in terms of cost. No Puente either. That seems to be underway. No sign of any Louttit project on Cranston St. Is that dead? Noticed that the remaining Foundry/Brown and Sharpe bldg next to 95 is in the planning stage to be rehabbed as office or residential space.

The tearing down of the LeRoy was a huge controversy at the time. It happened just before Pawtucket started to remake itself as an arts-oriented city and would almost certainly not happen today given the current climate. BTW, if you see the movie American Buffalo it was filmed in one of the stores that were part of the LeRoy.

Artinruins has a lot of stuff about Marvel Gym. http://www.artinruins.com/arch/rip/marvelgym/

Athletic fields. Neighborhood NIMBYs shot down a plan a few years ago to transform the gym into condos.

Love that shot. Just made it my desktop wallpaper. Those power plant stacks have really become a kind of Providence landmark. Actually the Red Bridge is the Henderson Bridge and was originally a Victorian era bridge that connected Waterman St in Providence to Waterman Ave in East Providence. The current Red/Henderson Bridge replaced the old Red Bridge in the 60s. The permanently upright draw bridge in the photo is the railroad bridge that was once connected to the East Side railroad tunnel that ran between North Main and near Gano.

Frankie That's on Broad St. http://local.provplan.org/pps/detail.asp?UID=BERK

A couple more from my neighborhood: Camp Street Ministries Mt Hope Learning Center

Let the bulldozing begin!