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Getting used to Fane tower
In “Once It Was a New Building,” my former editor and longtime friend Robert Whitcomb defended the proposed 600-foot Fane tower in this morning’s GoLocalProv. He writes: GoLocal’s mock editorial last week headlined “Dateline 1924: Don’t Let Them Build That … Continue reading
Andres Duany: Downcity adios
The following is a guest column written by Andrés Duany, a founder of the New Urbanism movement whose planning and design firm, Duany Plater-Zyberk, has been deeply involved in revitalizing downtown Providence since the early 1990s. He writes in opposition … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged Andres Duany, DPZ, Fane Organization, Fane Tower, Friedrich St. Florian, Hope Point Tower, Jason Fane, Providence RI, Urban Planning, Zoning
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Fane tower vote is tomorrow
Tomorrow the Providence City Council will vote on whether the height limit on vacant land in the Jewelry District should be raised by a factor of six on behalf of the proposed 600-foot Fane Tower. It should not. People who … Continue reading
ProvSox spike smote PawSox
If the PawSox do decamp for Worcester in two years, as seems certain but is not, there is blame enough to go around. The team owners say Rhode Island did not really want them, and they got their first taste … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged 38Studios, Baseball, Gina Raimondo, Minor League Baseball, PawSox, Pawtucket Red Sox, Pawtucket RI, Providence RI, Worcester MA
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Apex ain’t Pawtucket’s soul
If Apex is the soul of Pawtucket, then today’s Penn Station is the soul of New York City. Bad things have happened to the Big Apple in the last half century, and Penn Station arguably symbolizes the worst of it. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged Apex, Modern Architecture, Pawtucket RI, Providence RI, Urban Renewal, William H. Jordy, William Morgan
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Old Journal Building, ho!
Once developer Buff Chace started saving downtown Providence by rehabbing old buildings into lofts, no building seemed to elude his grasp more dishearteningly than the Old Journal Building, built in 1906. It was downtown’s holy grail, but for years its … Continue reading
Fane tower = urban renewal
I cannot attend Wednesday’s public hearing before the ordinance committee of the Providence City Council. The committee will hear testimony about whether to raise the height limit in the Route 195 corridor by a factor of six on behalf of … Continue reading
Taking wing on Westminster
Arnold “Buff” Chace, Providence’s pioneering redeveloper of downtown, has another major project in mind for Westminster Street. He has announced the renovation of the Lapham, Wit, and Trayne buildings, erected in 1904, 1925, and 1893, respectively. To the Trayne will … Continue reading
Cover-up on Canal Street!
Some people might think the “cover up” in the headline refers to the legally dubious swap of air rights for extra height that would have enabled 15 stories for Phase 2 of the proposed Edge College Hill apartments on Canal … Continue reading
Don’t junk up the PawSox
The politics of the proposed new stadium for the Pawtucket Red Sox – the PawSox – are beyond me, but a new financial package just proposed by its leading opponent, Nicholas Mattiello, speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, … Continue reading
