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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
“Lost Providence” at age 1
My dear wife, Victoria, just a moment ago reminded me, for some reason, that today a year has passed since the publication of my first book, Lost Providence. It had sold 548 copies as of the end of last year. … 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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‘Dream of Venice in B&W’
JoAnn Locktov, the editrix and impresaria of photographic essays of Venice in book form, sends me another of her beautiful works: Dream of Venice in Black and White, the third in her “Dream of Venice” series, published by Bella Figura … Continue reading
Our downtown writers’ club
The other day I was invited to the What Cheer Writers Club to look around the premises and sign my book, Lost Providence. The club was on the second floor of 160 Westminster St., a muted classical building that sits … Continue reading
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
