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Tag Archives: Buff Chace
No, not halfway to Houston
Yesterday’s post, “Prov’s halfway to Houston,” generated some blowback in my own mind, especially when, later in the day, I came across two reports that lifted my heart and my hopes about Providence and its future. Maybe “halfway” to Houston … Continue reading
Chace plans downtown digs
When it was announced several years ago that Providence developer Buff Chace would purchase the Journal Building and the parking lot across from it on Fountain Street, he expressed the hope of erecting a new building on the latter site. … Continue reading
Tower with, not against Prov
Unsurprisingly, the Providence Journal editorialized today in favor of the three residential towers, dubbed Hope Point Towers, proposed by New York developer Jason Fane. On the same day, in “Man behind Providence high-rise proposal has gotten well connected,” ace reporter … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Urbanism and planning
Tagged 195 Corridor, Buff Chace, Hope Point Towers, Jason Fane, Peter McNally, Providence Journal
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Downtown’s apt. bandwagon
The Case-Mead Building, erected in 1859 and one of my favorite buildings downtown, is joining downtown’s microloft bandwagon. The building is still fondly known by some as Paolino World Headquarters, though the Paolino family’s property development company moved out to … Continue reading
Our Downcity walkabout
On a clear, modestly chilly evening that just about defines New England in November, hundreds were out on the streets of downtown Providence. No doubt thousands more were inside on the seats of downtown’s robust round-robin of local restaurants and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Art and design, Preservation, Providence, Uncategorized, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Buff Chace, Downcity, Downtown Nieghborhood Alliance, Downtown Providence, Maria Ruggieri, Mary Ann Sorrentino, Murals, Providence Arcade, Providence Downtown Improvement District, Rosalina, The Avenue Concept, Ti Adoro
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Inside Kyla Coburn’s Prov
Anyone who writes for a living regrets that certain topics escape him, that he fails, with no good excuse, to write about them. For me, one is the Central Falls interior designer Kyla Coburn (Kyla Coburn Designs). I’ve been familiar … Continue reading
Long city planning grind
James Fallows has written “Nice Downtowns: How Did They Get that Way?” for the Atlantic, about how active city downtowns arise not naturally or organically but are planned. He takes the example of Seattle, which was a hollowed-out reject 50 … Continue reading
Buffing the downtown fabric
The expected purchase by Arnold C. “Buff” Chace of the Providence Journal’s headquarter’s building – not the old Journal building of 1906 but the “new” one of 1934, designed by noted Motor City architect Albert Kahn – is extraordinarily good … Continue reading
KP discombobulation
Here is a piece about Kennedy Plaza by Brandon Klayko for archpaper.com. Donald Powers, founder of Union Studio Architects and designer of the very nice master plan, above, for Kennedy Plaza proposed in 2013, was clearly the author’s primary source … Continue reading
Blast: CNU in Providence (2)
Here is the second of those two columns: The New Urbanists in Providence II June 8, 2006 THE QUESTION most asked at last week’s 14th Congress for the New Urbanism was: If style doesn’t matter, why are we always discussing … Continue reading
