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[Cotuit]

• 195 Relocation/Washington Bridge Park
  
• 70 Kennedy Plaza
  
• AS220/Perishable Theatre
  
• Brown University | Life Sciences Building
  
• Capital Cove
  
• Charles Street Walmart
  
• Eastside Commons
  
• The Foundry
  
• Grant's Block
  
• GTECH
  
• Harkness Building
  
• Knight Street Condos | Federal Hill
  
• Masonic Temple | Renaissance Hotel
  
• Meeting Street School
  
• Miriam Hospital Expansion
  
• Pearl Street Lofts
  
• Peerless Building
  
• The Pell Chafee Theatre Performance Center
  
• Pratt Hill Condos
  
• Puente
  
• Rau Fastener | Westfield Lofts
  
• RISD 15West
  
• Save the Bay Headquarters
  
• WaterPlace | Intercontinental

• 200 Dyer Street
  
• 333 Atwells Avenue (Rialto Site)
  
• 6/10 Interchange Project
  
• Artiste Lofts LLC at Eagle Square
  
• AS220 Dreyfuss Hotel Building
  
• Brown University | Sidney E. Frank Hall
  
• Charles Street hotel
  
• Conley Wharf
  
• Dunkin Donuts Center Renovations
  
• Emmett Square Improvements
  
• Fogarty Building Hotel
  
• Fox Point Bath House library proposal
  
• Greene St/Churchill Banks
  
• Heritage Harbor/Mixed Use
  
• Imperial Place
  
• Johnson & Wales Harborside Campus
  
• Katherine Gibbs School Condos
  
• LaSalle Square Improvements
  
• Olneyville Riverside
  
• One Ten Westminster
  
• Power Block 55 Broadway (Paolino Site)
  
• Power Block Atwells Parcel
  
• Power Block | Hilton Hotel & Residences
  
• Providence Community Health Center
  
• Providence Fruit & Produce Warehouse
  
• Richmond Square mixed-use
  
• RISD | Chase Center
  
• Saki's Apartments
  
• Waterford Residences (Westin 2nd Tower)
  
• WBNA 1577 Westminster St. housing
  
• Williams-Woods Place | South Providence

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Route 195 Relocation/Providence River Bridge/Washington Bridge Park






Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: East Providence and Providence Fox Point, India Point, Jewelry District, Upper South Providence
Use: Highway project, bridge replacement, linear park

Links:
UP IN PROGRESS: Route 195 Relocation/Washington Bridge Park
Route 195 Relocation/Providence River Bridge | RIDoT
Washington Bridge Park | RIDoT


70 Kennedy Plaza Condos

-Image from Art in Ruins

Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: 70 Kennedy Plaza and Westminster Street (former People's Savings Bank Building) | Financial District
Use: Condos, ground floor retail Approx. 10 condo units varying in size from 900 sq. foot one 2-bed 1-bath units to 1,800 sq. foot 2-bed 2-bath units. Prices will range from $276,000 to $699,000. Standard ammenities will include; hardwood floors, marble bathrooms and stainless steel appliances. Early buyers will be able to build-to-suit. The current ground floor tenant is CVS.

Links:
UP IN PROGRESS: 70 Kennedy Plaza
Art in Ruins


AS220/Perishable Theatre


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Empire Street | Downcity
Use: Theatre, art space, cafe

Visit The Perishable Campaign for more project details.

Links:
UP IN PROGRESS AS220/Perishable Theatre
AS220
Perishable Theatre


Brown University | Life Sciences Building


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Olive Street | College Hill
Use: Science labs housing the departments of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry; Neuroscience. The building will also contain new space for interdisciplinary initiatives in genetics and genomics. The project will modernize and expand laboratory and research space at Brown. It will be designed to encourage scientific collaboration among faculty; staff and students by uniting complimentary research under one roof.
Cost: est. $94 million new construction

Links:
Brown University | Building Brown


Capital Cove


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Canal Street | Capital Center
Use: Townhouses

Links:
UP IN-PROGRESS: Capital Cove

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Charles Street WalMart


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Silver Spring Avenue at Charles Street | North End
Use: 134,700 square foot WalMart to replace the vacant Ames Department Store on Silver Spring Avenue in the Providence's North End. The developer is Fall River based First Bristol Corp., the construction manager is Bohler Engineering of Massachusetts. The project will modify the current entrances to the parking lot, and add a traffic light to the intersection at Charles Street and Silver Spring Avenue.

Links:
UP IN PROGRESS: Charles Street Walmart


Eastside Commons


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: 1 Wayland Avenue | East Side
Use: One, two, and three bedroom luxury condominiums

Links
Toll Brothers | Eastside Commons


The Foundry


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: 255Promenade Street | The Promenade/Smith Hill
Building Constructed: The Brown & Sharpe mill complex was built in phases beginning in 1887
Use: Office, luxury residential Most of the remaining undeveloped space in The Foundry complex is being renovated to house luxury rental units. 220 apartments are being created with rents of $1,200 to $3,000.


Grant's Block


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Westminster, Union, Clemence, and Weybosset Streets | Downcity
Use: Parking garage, retail, and condominium Plans for Grant's Block have changed considerably with a proposed 200 foot tower on site. The project is still expected to contain a parking garage, residential units (either rental or condo), and retail space on the Weybosset and Westminster ends.  

Links:
UP IN PROGRESS: Grant's Block
The Westminster Street Lofts

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GTECH


Renderings from Spagnolo/Gisness & Associates (click to enlarge)


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Memorial Boulevard and Francis Street | Capital Center
Use: Corporate headquarters for the GTECH corporation, ground floor retail The $80-million world headquarters for the GTECH corporation broke ground in December. The 12-story office building is the first new office building built in Providence in 14 years. 700 workers will call GTECH home with additional space available for other offices in the building as well as ground floor restaurant and retail space.

Links:
UP IN PROGRESS: GTECH
Spagnolo/Gisness & Associates


Harkness Building


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Washington Street | Downcity
Building Constructed: 1906
USE: Ground floor is new home to Gracie's Restaurant. The upper floors contain the offices for Trinity Reperatory Company and the Brown/Trinity Consortium. Cornish Associates also has offices in the building.

Links:
UP IN PROGRESS: Harkness Building


Knight Street Condos | Federal Hill


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Atwells Avenue at Knight Street | Federal Hill
Use: Condos Ten story, 43 unit condo at the west end of Atwells Avenue on Federal Hill. The 145 foot building received 5 zoning variances to get approval to build and there is a degree of neighbourhood opposition to the building's size in a district of mostly 3 to 4 story commercial and residential buildings.

Links:
UP IN-PROGRESS: Knight Street Condos


Masonic Temple | Renaissance Hotel


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Francis Street | Smith Hill
Building Constructed: 1929
Use: 4-star Renaissance Hotel [I]The new Renaissance Hotel – considered the largest restoration project in Rhode Island History - will include 272 guestrooms and suites, 10,000 square feet of ballroom and meeting room space, a fitness center with spa, as well a full service restaurant and lounge. The hotel will have a luxurious Presidential Suite with a fireplace as well as six additional suites.

Links:
UP IN PROGRESS: Masonic Temple Hotel
Renaissance Hotel in Providence


Meeting Street School


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Eddy Street | South Providence
Use: New home for East Providence's Meeting Street School.

Links:
UP IN PROGRESS: Meeting Street School
Meeting Street School

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Miriam Hospital Expansion


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: 164 Summit Avenue | Summit
Use: Phase one of the project is the construction of the new Patient Services Center, which will house a surgical suite with ten operating rooms, a diagnostic imaging suite, cafeteria, conference rooms and 36 private patient care rooms.

Links:
UP IN-PROGRESS: Miriam Hospital Expansion
Miriam Hospital


Pearl Street Lofts


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Pearl Street | South Providence
Building Constructed: New England Butt Company Complex built 1840-1950
Use: 142 residential loft apartments, ground floor commercial and office space including a restaurant and an art gallery

Butler Associates has begun extensive renovations to five historic brick mill buildings on Pearl Street in Providence for The Armory Revival Company. Four of the five mill buildings will be transformed into a total of 142 residential loft apartments and seventeen 120,000 sf of first floor commercial space for professional offices including a restaurant and services art gallery. Each residence living area will have a unique layout due to the fact that the buildings were constructed at various periods utilizing different construction materials and methods. All units will feature high-end finishes, some will have spiral staircases, hardwood floors or multiple bedrooms and baths. The fifth building, currently being used for storage, will receive a new roof and mechanical systems. The 19-century brick buildings, formally the New England Butt Company, range in date from the 1840s to the 1950s. The New England Butt Company was established in 1842 and manufactured cast iron butt hinges for doors. Owners of the project, The Armory Revival Company, have made their a goal of awarding 25% of the contract to minority and women owned businesses and to hire 15 people directly from the neighborhood a high.
-High-Profile.com


Peerless Building


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: 229 Westminster Street | Downcity
Building Constructed: c. 1890
Use: Ground floor retail, loft apartments
Units: 97 | Renting from $1,100 to $2,800 per month

Constructed in 1890’s, what is now known as the Peerless Building is actually comprised of five individual buildings. Located at 229 Westminster Street at the corner of Union, the two most prominent are the Callendar, McAuslan & Troup building designed by Walker & Gould and The William H. Low Estate building, designed by Martin & Hall architect. This cluster of buildings which except for the Hannah Green Estate building make up the entire  block of Westminster between Eddy and Union Streets. This block was famous for housing the largest and most successful regional department stores until the 1980’s when the Peerless store closed it doors. This property with its newly designed internal Atrium, 97 loft-style units and commanding presence within the neighborhood, make it the cornerstone of the revitalization effort. Each of the loft-style apartments are designed to provide for the maximum amount of natural light and ceiling height with an open floor plan giving ultimate flexibility in arranging furniture to suit your lifestyle. There will also be 68 under-ground parking spaces and 22,000 square feet of retail on the ground floor. This project is currently under construction scheduled for completion and occupancy in late March of 2005.
-The Westminster Street Lofts

Links
UP Retail in Downcity Providence  
UP Living on Westminster Street
The Westminster Street Lofts


The Pell Chafee Theatre Performance Center


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Empire Street | Downcity
Use: Theatre

Thanks to Citizens Bank's gift of its former Empire Street branch building, Trinity Rep is creating a new performance space. The Pell Chafee Performance Center will add much-needed facilities to Providence's Arts and Entertainment District, and a powerful economic stimulus to the area. With a projected cost of $4.6 million, the Pell Chafee Performance Center will open in February 2005. 

The facility will become the primary home to our Consortium graduate programs with Brown University. The Citizens Bank Theater, on the ground floor level, will be used as a raw performance space for our graduate student projects, readings, and other community events. The Pell Chafee Performance Center and Citizens Bank Theater will also be home to much of our grade-school education programming as well as summer and after-school programs for local youth. The basement level will have several studio spaces and restrooms. With flexible audience seating for up to 250, the Pell Chafee Performance Center will offer technical capabilities, a "satellite" box office, and amenities for audience and performers, fully accessible and ADA-compliant.
Trinity Repertory Company

Links:
Trinity Repertory Company


Pratt Hill Condos


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Olney Street | Summit
Use: Townhouses

Pratt Hill townhouses are designed by architect Friedrich St.Florian, who is most recently noted for his design of the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. Pratt Hill is the first public offering of residential homes designed by Mr. St.Florian. Prospective owners will have the opportunity to work directly with the architect in selecting interior finishes and appointments.

Pratt Hill has three spacious levels with hardwood floors throughout and an underground garage for two cars with side-by-side parking. Outdoor spaces are beautifully landscaped and each unit will have a private garden and deck or terrace.
-PrattHill.com

Links:
UP IN PROGRESS: Pratt Hill condos
Pratt Hill

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Puente


Status: IN-PROGRESS

PUENTE, which means bridge in Spanish, is a non-profit real estate and community economic development organization based in Olneyville. Our mission is to catalyze economic self-sufficiency and provide opportunities to neighborhoods that are facing gentrification and displacement. Specifically, we reactivate abandoned and under-utilized properties to the benefit of the local community.
-Puente

Links:
UP Rhode Island Live/Work Space
Puente

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Rau Fastener Mill | Westfield Lofts


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: 218 Dexter Street | South Providence
Building Constructed: 1917
Use: Affordable housing, market rate townhouses

A former Brownfield site, it is now slated for redevelopment into  affordable housing by the West Elmwood Housing Development Corporation.
The project calls for the three-building, three-acre complex to be  developed in three or four phases. The first phase, on which ground  will be broken late 2003, includes the development of a three-story  and a four-story structure that served as the center of Rau's  manufacturing facility into 67 housing units, 22 of which will be for  low-income residents. The units will feature high ceilings, brick  walls and beams.
The first development will cost $12.8 million, which includes  demolition, design, environmental cleanup and renovations. Developers  would also demolish one-story and two-story structures that were  added on to the two main brick buildings.
A second phase calls for the development of a large, wood-frame  building for a daycare center on the first floor and commercial or  retail space on the second floor. A third phase would create  townhouses for sale at market rate. Each three-story home would have  a gated yard and a ground-level garage. The project would also create  a pocket park, other landscaped green space, ample parking and  sidewalks.
-From Art in Ruins

Links:
Art in Ruins
Rau Fastener Mill Complex
The Providence Phoenix


RISD | 15 West


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: 15 Westminster Street | Downcity
Building Constructed: 1917 as Rhode Island Hospital Trust Bank  Building
Use: Rhode Island School of Design student housing, library,  and cafe
The renovation of 15 Westminster Street, the 12-story former bank  building across the river from the RISD Auditorium, is well underway,  with new housing for nearly 500 students and a first-floor café  slated to open with the start of classes in the fall of 2005. Working  with the local development company Gilbane Properties, Inc. and the  Boston-based architectural firm ADD Inc., RISD is transforming floors  3­11 of 15 West (as it s now known on campus) into residential  spaces for upperclass and graduate students.

The property, originally built by Rhode Island Hospital Trust Bank in  1917, will help the college to expand on-campus housing for its 2,300  students beyond the current capacity of 790. RISD has long recognized  the need to add safe, affordable accommodations near studios,  especially as demand for city housing keeps pace with Providence's growing popularity. With that in mind, it tabled preliminary plans to  build new dorms elsewhere on campus in favor of a long-term lease agreement with Gilbane.

Located just across the street from the risd|works gallery/retail  store, 15 West will also enable RISD to establish a stronger presence  in downtown Providence, building on its recent shift of all graduate  programs to the Fletcher Building and the Center for Integrative  Technologies on Weybosset Street.
-RISD

Links:
UP IN PROGRESS: RISD 15West
RISD | Campus Initiatives: Campus Housing
RISD | Campus Initiatives: The Fleet Library at RISD


Save The Bay Headquarters


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: 100 Bay View Drive | Fields Point

Save The Bay will support its programs by building an urban education center at Field's Point in Providence - the Explore The Bay Education Center. In this community and family-oriented Bayside setting, people from both nearby urban neighborhoods and those  traveling from throughout the region will have direct access to the  Bay. For many urban school children and adults the site will offer a first opportunity to explore the Bay and its shoreline.

As the new headquarters, the Explore The Bay Center will establish Save The Bay's presence as a permanent and powerful advocate, participating in all decisions affecting the Bay. The building's  design will demonstrate the openness of our organization, by facilitating inclusive and reflective communication among Save The  Bay members, board members, staff, volunteers and visitors. It will incorporate positive messages about Bay activism and convey the  excitement of an energetic advocacy organization. It will enable Save The Bay to keep its covenant with Narragansett Bay.
-SaveTheBay.org

Links:
UP IN PROGRESS: Save The Bay Headquarters
Save The Bay


WaterPlace | Capital Center Parcel 2


Status: IN-PROGRESS
Location: Exchange Street | Capital Center
Use: Residential, retail, restaurant

Intercontinental plans to build two towers containing 275 high-end apartments, sitting atop a garage with space for more than 500 cars.

The project would occupy what is now a grassy, trash-strewn, 2.1-acre lot, bounded by Park Row West, Exchange Street, Memorial Boulevard and Waterplace Park.
Retail stores would occupy the ground floor of each building, which  would be arranged around a pedestrian courtyard and walkway leading between Exchange Street and Waterplace Park.

A third building, across from American Express Plaza, could contain a hotel and offices in a later phase.

Intercontinental bought the development rights to the site, known as Parcel 2 in the Capital Center special development district, from Eastman Pierce of Connecticut.

Links:
UP IN PROGRESS: WaterPlace | Intercontinental

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200 Dyer Street


Status: PROPOSED
Location: 198-200 Dyer Street | Downcity
Type: New Construction & Redevelopment
Use: Office / Retail
Size: 276,400 sf

CONNECTING THE CITY TO THE RIVER
The development proposal for 198-200 Dyer Street responds to the City’s plan to reconnect to the Providence River. This new urban vision creates a plan of streets and smaller development blocks culminating in new continuous river front park with integrated commercial and recreational uses.

The proposed building forms a strong urban street wall along Dyer and Dorrance Streets. The building has two faces, one to the city and one to the river. The Dyer Street face incorporates an arcade to pedestrians. A generous raised terrace on the east side of the building addresses the Providence River and a continuous riverside park. The nine story structure will be two hundred and forty thousand square feet of office space, atop 3 levels of parking which will accomidate 430 cars.
-Churchill & Banks

It's not known what the actual status of this project is. If it is indeed proposed for land currently under Route 195, it will likely be 5 years or more before we see anything concrete on this.

Links:
UP PROPOSED: 200 Dyer Street
Churchill & Banks


333 Atwells Avenue (Rialto Furniture Site)


Status: PROPOSED
Location: 333 Atwells Avenue | Federal Hill
Use: Luxury apartment units

Links:
UP PROPOSED: 333 Atwells Avenue (Rialto Furniture)


Route 6/10 Interchange Project


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Olneyville

Read about the 4 project alternatives at RIDoT's website.

Links:
UP Route 6/10 Interchange Project
RIDoT


Artiste Lofts LLC at Eagle Square


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Eagle and Valley Streets | Olneyville/Valley
Use: 145 loft style live/work units

THE LATEST CASE in point is the Procaccianti Building, a complex of old mills on the Eagle Street side of Eagle Square (commonly misidentified as Eastern Butcher Block because of the prominent signage displayed by its neighbor) that were owned until recently by the Procaccianti Group, a Cranston-based hospitality-management company. In September, Artiste Lofts LLC of Los Angeles bought the 190,868-square-foot, three-acre complex for $1.7 million, according to Neil Amper of Rodman Real Estate, the broker for the sale. According to a press release from Artiste Lofts’ Michael Gazdacko, the company, which has done adaptive-reuse projects in cities including Portland, Oregon, and Bloomfield, New Jersey, has preliminary plans to redevelop the Procaccianti Building into 145 "New York SoHo style" live/work loft condominiums, ranging from 700 to 2500 square feet, with an average unit size of 1150 square feet.

Ron Wierks, who represents Artiste Lofts from New Brunswick, New Jersey, says the company was attracted to the location in part because of other recent developments in the area, including the one at Eagle Square. "We feel like that area there is in a transitional period," he says. "You now have the conveniences of the [Shaw’s] grocery store and the retail that’s been built all around it." Wierks adds that the company will prioritize historic preservation of the buildings. "We want to do it in a historic manner so we keep the mill-style look and the atmosphere of being old. We’re not going to do like next door where they knocked the buildings down and created their own village."
-The Providence Phoenix

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AS220 | Dreyfuss Hotel Project


Status: PROPOSED



Brown University | Sidney E. Frank Hall


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Angell Street | College Hill
Use: University academic building

A $20-million gift from New York businessman Sidney Frank - the largest single gift for a building ever made to Brown University - will allow Brown to proceed with planning and construction of a new academic building and a large, landscaped urban green space on Angell Street. At its meeting May 29, 2004, the Brown Corporation accepted the gift and authorized planning for the project to proceed.
-Brown University | Building Brown

Links:
Brown University | Building Brown


Charles Street hotel

Status: PROPOSED
Location: Charles Street | North End
Use: Comfort Suites Hotel

Links:
UP PROPOSED: Charles Street budget hotel


Conley Wharf


Status: PROPOSED
Location: 200 Allens Avenue | "Narragansett Landing"

Immediate plans for this space call for artist studio space and a restaurant. Later plans call for condos, a hotel, and pier facilities for the Providence-Newport Ferry and other possible water-shuttle services.

Links:
UP PROPOSED: Conley Wharf
Partnership for Creative Industrial Space

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Dunkin Donuts Center Renovations


Status: PROPOSED
Location: LaSalle Square | Downcity
Use: Civic Center Arena home of the Providence Bruins and Providence Friars mens basketball

Expansion facts, figures
SEATING EXPANSION
Current/Renovated
Hockey 11,905/12,419
Concerts 13,969/14,765
Basketball 12,993/13,327

PRIORITY SEATING
Luxury Suites: 20
Party Suites: 4
Ledge Seating: Unknown

MAJOR IMPROVEMENT COSTS
Luxury Suites, Ledge seats, Concessions: $13.4 million
New Seating, Restrooms, Lobby, Link to Convention Center: $9.5 million
Upgrade locker rooms, weight room, concert dressing rooms: $3.7 million
Repair ice floor, lighting, signage, exterior concrete: $9.7 million
Physical plant, mechanical, electrical, fire safety: $22 million
Projected costs: $62 million.
-SOURCE: Convention Center Authority feasibility study.

Dunk renovation at a glance
COST: $62 million
MAJOR CHANGES: 20 luxury suites, wider concourses, cushioned seats with cup holders, new sound system and video scoreboard, and upgraded team facilities
TIME LINE: 3 years, beginning this fall
GOAL: Increase annual revenue by $1.35 million

Links:
UP PROPOSED: Dunkin Donuts Center renovations


Emmett Square Improvements


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Emmett Square | Downcity
Use: Vehicular and pedestrian traffic improvements to the Emmett Square area.



Fogarty Building Hotel


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Sabin and Fountain Streets | Downcity
Use: Convention Center Hotel

Links:
UP PROPOSED: Forgarty Building hotel
UP Mesolella Hotel Saga


Fox Point Bath House library proposal

Status: PROPOSED
Location: Wickenden Street | Fox Point
Use: School library, community meeting room

Links:
UP PROPOSED: Fox Point Bathhouse Library
Art In Ruins

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Greene Street Townhouses

Status: PROPOSED
Location: Greene Street | Cathedral Square
Use: Condominiums

Links:
UP PROPOSED: Greene Street Townhouses
Churchill & Banks


Heritage Harbor Mixed Use


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Eddy Street | Jewelry District
Use: Mixed-use, retail, offices, research facilities, Heritage Harbor Rhode Island history museum.

Links:
UP PROPOSED: Heritage Harbor Mixed-Use
Art In Ruins


Imperial Place


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Imperial Place | Jewelry District
Use: Office, retail, residential

Links
UP PROPOSED: Imperial Place
Churchill & Banks


Johnson & Wales Harborside Campus


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Narragansett Blvd. | Washington Park
Use: Dormitories, athletic facilities

Links:
UP PROPOSED: J&W's Harborside Campus expansion

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Katherine Gibbs School condos


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Butler Avenue | Wayland
Use: Plan calls for replacing the former Katharine Gibbs School with 16 apartments or condominiums with underground parking.

Links:
UP PROPOSED: K. Gibbs School site condos


LaSalle Square Improvements


Status: PROPOSED
Location: LaSalle Square | Downcity
Use: Vehicular and pedestrian traffic improvements to the LaSalle Square area.



Olneyville Riverside


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Near Manton Avenue, Riverside Mills area | Olneyville
Use: 35 units of affordable housing and 2 rehabilitated commercial spaces

The Riverside Gateway Development is an initiative that will create more than 35 units of new affordable housing and two rehabilitated commercial units and bring community-controlled investment to an area that desperately needs it.  It would turn large vacant parcels of land that line the Riverside Mills site on the Woonasquatucket River in Olneyville into new two– and three-unit houses as well as renew several vacant, abandoned and underutilized two– and three-family properties near Manton Avenue into rehabilitated two-, three-, and four-bedroom units.

The development is timed to complement and capitalize on several other major public investments nearby, including the development of Riverside Park and the Manton Avenue streetscape improvements. Riverside Park, a six-acre, $2.2 million park planned for the Riverside Mills site, is currently under construction.
-SOURCE: Olneyville Housing Corporation

Links:
Olneyville Housing Corporation


OneTen Westminster


Status: PROPOSED
Location: 110 Westminster Street | Financial District
Use: 130 luxury condominum units in a 512 foot tower (Providence's new tallest tower), ground floor market adjoining the historic Arcade.

Links:
UP PROPOSED: OneTen Westminster
OneTenProv.com

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Power Block | 55 Broadway


Status: PROPOSED
Location: 55 Broadway | Downcity
Use: $175-$200 million residential retail tower at the former site of the Circular Gas Station at Atwells and Broadway. The 27-story tower will feature ground floor retail with condominiums above.

Links:
UP PROPOSED: The "Power Block"
The Procaccianti Group


Power Block | Atwells Site


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Federal Street at Service Road 8 next to Dominica Manor | Federal Hill
Use: Theoretical location of The Procaccianti Group's loft style condo tower proposed for an 'undisclosed location' near the Power Block. Another theorized location is the former Public Safety Building at LaSalle Square.

Links:
UP PROPOSED: The "Power Block"
The Procaccianti Group


Power Block | Hilton Hotel & Residences


Status: PROPOSED
Location: 21 Atwells Avenue | Downcity
Building Constructed: 1969
Use: Hotel, expansion to include steak house, sports bar, cafe, and additional parking

Links:
UP PROPOSED: The Power Block
UP PROPOSED: Hilton Providence Hotel & Residences
The Procaccianti Group


Providence Community Health Center


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Gordon Street | South Providence
Use: Mixed use site with residential, commercial, and office space. The biggest component will be a community health care center.

Links:
ProJo article

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Providence Fruit & Produce Warehouse


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Harris Avenue | Promenade

Links:
UP PROPOSED: Providence Fruit & Produce Warehouse
UP Carpionato Properties
Carpionato Properties
Art In Ruins


Richmond Square mixed-use

Status: PROPOSED
Location: Richmond Square
Use: Twin 9-story condo towers, further plans call for mixed-use retail/office development.

Links:
UP PROPOSED: Richmond Square mixed-use


RISD | Chase Center


Status: PROPOSED
Location: North Main Street | Downcity/College Hill
Use: Museum expansion, auditorium, student galleries, and café

The Chace Center complex will dramatically expand and reorient The RISD Museum, giving RISD an entrance facing downtown Providence. The project also entails restoration of Memorial Hall, a former church dating from 1851, and the Museum’s Radeke Building, added in 1926. With such amenities as a café, an auditorium and new student galleries, the complex is envisioned as a hub where people come and go, stop for coffee, and to talk, exchange ideas and feel refreshed by art. 

Links:
RISD | Campus Initiatives: The Chase Center
RISD | Architect José Rafael Moneo


Saki's Apartment Plan


Status: PROPOSED
Location: Weybosset Street | Downcity
Use: Upscale greek restaurant, apartments

Links:
UP PROPOSAL: Upscale Apartments at Saki's

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The Waterford Residences (Westin 2nd Tower)


Status: PROPOSED
Location: 21 Emmit Square | Downcity
Use: 200 room expansion of the Westin Hotel, ground floor retail, luxury condos

The Procaccianti Group won the bid to purchase the 364-room Westin Hotel which is currently owned by the state. The privately-owned company says it plans to spend $40 million to $60 million to improve and expand the hotel by 200 rooms on adjacent vacant land, according to a company press release issued today.

As part of the expansion, Procaccianti wants to build a mixed-use development containing street level retail, several floors of office space and luxury residential on the top floors, the company said. The company may also move it's corporate headquarters (100 workers) from suburban Cranston to the new tower.

Final negotiations are continuing with the state. Construction could begin at the end of the year.

Links:
UP PROPOSED: Westin / Waterford Residences
The Procaccianti Group


WBNA 1577 Westminster St. housing

Status: PROPOSED
Location: 1577 Westminster Street | West Side
Use: 65 units of affordable, townhouse style housing

Links:
UP PROPOSED: WBNA 1577 Westminster St. housing
West Broadway Neighborhood Association
William Kite Architects


Williams-Woods Place | South Providence

Status: PROPOSED
Location: Roger Williams Homes site | South Providence
Use: 65 units of affordable, townhouse style housing

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UP PROPOSED: Williams-Woods Place affordable apts.

[CtownMikey]

lol.


space.

OK, about the Providence bridge that is part of the 195 relocation, didn't someone mention that the bridge would have the words Providence in the actualy structure of it? Or was that just an idea?

[Baines]

CtownMikey, on Jun 10 2005, 07:39 PM, said:

lol.
space.

OK, about the Providence bridge that is part of the 195 relocation, didn't someone mention that the bridge would have the words Providence in the actualy structure of it? Or was that just an idea?

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That is the bridge over Route 95...not the Route 195 bridge over the river

[Indy]

Someone asked for something like this in one of the other forums so I thought Id put it here.  I did this in Photoshop using some photos posted on this site - so I can't take much credit other than compiling them all together.

This includes the proposed Westin Addition, the Gtech Headquarters, and the proposed Parcel 2 buildings at Waterplace park.

Later I might fire up 3ds and Autocad and polish this up a bit with buildings that fit the perspective... for now Im at the mercy of the photos available.  I also want to put some row houses or something along the river near the Amtrak line.  Anyone know whats going up there?  And anyone know about that parking lot downtown across from the Eastside?  Id love to plug that up.

Edited by Indy, 13 June 2005 - 03:44 AM.

[Frankie811]

Along the tracks is parcel 6 where up to 5 apartment building are suppose to go up.

[Recchia]

Waterplace condos look so small compared to everything else.  Thanks for the pic Indy.

Edited by Recchia, 13 June 2005 - 04:33 AM.