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Tag Archives: Hope Point Tower
Lessons from the Fane ouster
The so-called Hope Point Tower threat is gone, done in by inflationary costs and a dodgy market. Lessons from this interlude abound, chiefly that neighborhood opposition to poorly conceived proposals works. Jason Fane’s proposal for a 550-foot tower in a … Continue reading
The Fane tower: It’s baaack!
The Rhode Island Supreme Court has ruled that the Fane tower – a proposed 500-foot, 46-story luxury highrise in the Jewelry District of Providence – can go forward toward construction. The tower’s proposed height of five times the limit in … Continue reading
The fate of the Fane tower
Last Wednesday, the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission approved the design of the proposed Fane tower in the city’s Jewelry District. The press duly noted the project’s latest step forward, but in fact hope is quite dim for the queer-looking 46-story … Continue reading
Final say on Fane design?
Fane tower supporters left Monday night’s meeting in full glum after the city’s design panel recommended against approving three of four Fane requests for exemptions from zoning that could kill the project. Opponents left in full euphoria, in the belief … Continue reading
Block Fane tower Monday
Hope Point Tower should be called Hope Punt Tower. When it comes to hope for the livability of Providence, it punts. The tower’s design goes for its second session before the Downtown Design Review Committee on Monday at 4:45 p.m., … Continue reading
The path now against Fane
The Providence City Council has overridden Mayor Elorza’s brave veto of a bill to allow developer Jason Fane to proceed with a tower that plainly violates city zoning law. The building would no longer violate the height limit for Parcel … Continue reading
Veto the tower, Mr. Mayor
I wrote a letter to Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza today [Monday]. I sent it by email and then hand-delivered another copy tucked inside my book Lost Providence, where I inscribed the title page in his honor. “Delivered with the sincerest … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged City Planning, Hope Point Tower, Jason Fane, Jorge Elorza, Lost Providence, Providence RI, Zoning
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Committee’s Fane flip-flop
Learning nothing in its latest public hearing that it did not already know, the Ordinance Committee of Providence City Council reversed itself on Thursday to recommend that the council neuter the city’s zoning laws. It voted three to one to … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged City Planning, Fane Tower, Hope Point Tower, Jason Fane, Providence City Council, Providence RI, Urban Renewal, Zoning
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Stop Fane tower on Monday
The good guys will have another opportunity to denounce the bad guys on Monday at a 5:30 p.m. public hearing of the ordinance committee of the Providence City Council. I refer, naturally, to the proposed 600-foot Hope Point Tower by … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged 195 Corridor, Fane Organization, Fane Tower, Hope Point Tower, Jason Fane, Providence RI, Urban Planning
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Andres Duany: Downcity adios
The following is a guest column written by AndrĂ©s 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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