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IN PROGRESS: Royal Mills in West Warwick
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Posted 07 July 2007 - 06:54 AM
Shifting market bolsters rental unit development.
Royal Mills was slated to be Struever Bros., Eccles & Rouse’s only project in Rhode Island to include a condominium component. But in the end, it appears that they just weren’t meant to be in the historic West Warwick mill.
Royal Mills was slated to be Struever Bros., Eccles & Rouse’s only project in Rhode Island to include a condominium component. But in the end, it appears that they just weren’t meant to be in the historic West Warwick mill.
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Posted 18 July 2007 - 08:21 AM
PROJO: "Royal Mills has unusual pitchman"
"Last month, Baltimore developer Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse converted all 64 of the planned condominiums at the Royal Mills in West Warwick into apartments, citing the state’s softening condo market. Now, the company has enlisted a new pitchman to help it rent the nearly 200 apartments in the former factory on the Pawtuxet River.
The new voice of the Royal Mills: the clock tower, which Struever Bros. spent $250,000 restoring early last year.
“I’ve seen over 40,000 sunrises. Generations have set their watches to me. I’ve shrugged off countless storms and caught the last rays of summer sun. I watched the mill around me close. I came to peace with just fading away. Then, one night, I was lit up again. People came out of their homes to see me. Smiles on their faces. Tears in their eyes. That felt good. Now, you can see me for yourself, every time you come home,” says the “clock tower,” speaking in the “voice of an older man,” according to the script for the 60-second spot produced by the Providence-based Nail Communications and written by copywriter Collin Sheehan.
The 100-foot granite and cobblestone clock tower had not worked for six decades before Struever Bros. restored it with the assistance of the Regulator Time Co. in Manhattan, Kan. The bronze bell that once roused mill workers for the start of their shift is now tolling again, 12 times a day. The original clock and a bell were installed in 1891. In 1919, a fire destroyed most of the clock tower, requiring the replacement of at least some of the clockwork. The surviving bell was cast in 1920 by the E. Howard Clock Co.
Struever Bros., which is investing $100 million to transform the former mill, has long tried to promote the history of the complex, using the slogan “Royal Mills. The Past. Reborn.”
An earlier advertisement — also written by Sheehan and printed on the side of public buses — advertised the Royal Mills as “Built 70 Years Before Some Jerk Invented Vinyl Siding.”
"Last month, Baltimore developer Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse converted all 64 of the planned condominiums at the Royal Mills in West Warwick into apartments, citing the state’s softening condo market. Now, the company has enlisted a new pitchman to help it rent the nearly 200 apartments in the former factory on the Pawtuxet River.
The new voice of the Royal Mills: the clock tower, which Struever Bros. spent $250,000 restoring early last year.
“I’ve seen over 40,000 sunrises. Generations have set their watches to me. I’ve shrugged off countless storms and caught the last rays of summer sun. I watched the mill around me close. I came to peace with just fading away. Then, one night, I was lit up again. People came out of their homes to see me. Smiles on their faces. Tears in their eyes. That felt good. Now, you can see me for yourself, every time you come home,” says the “clock tower,” speaking in the “voice of an older man,” according to the script for the 60-second spot produced by the Providence-based Nail Communications and written by copywriter Collin Sheehan.
The 100-foot granite and cobblestone clock tower had not worked for six decades before Struever Bros. restored it with the assistance of the Regulator Time Co. in Manhattan, Kan. The bronze bell that once roused mill workers for the start of their shift is now tolling again, 12 times a day. The original clock and a bell were installed in 1891. In 1919, a fire destroyed most of the clock tower, requiring the replacement of at least some of the clockwork. The surviving bell was cast in 1920 by the E. Howard Clock Co.
Struever Bros., which is investing $100 million to transform the former mill, has long tried to promote the history of the complex, using the slogan “Royal Mills. The Past. Reborn.”
An earlier advertisement — also written by Sheehan and printed on the side of public buses — advertised the Royal Mills as “Built 70 Years Before Some Jerk Invented Vinyl Siding.”
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Posted 26 May 2008 - 09:05 AM
So a good friend of mine just rented a place at Royal Mills. Let me tell you, if this was in Providence, I'd move there in a heartbeat. It OWNS any other mill development out there right now. The balconies over the waterfall are amazing and the interiors are awesome, with artifacts from the mill's working days all over the place and a museum. They have so many amenities too, it's crazy. Their gym and clubhouse areas are the best I've seen, with bars, kitchens, pool tables, fooze ball, poker, coffee stations, etc. etc. all over the place. Even the parking garage has car lifts that lift one car over your other if you have two. Very nice development, and apparently it's finally starting to fill up.
Edited by Recchia, 26 May 2008 - 09:06 AM.
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Posted 26 May 2008 - 03:50 PM
Recchia, on May 26 2008, 11:05 AM, said:
So a good friend of mine just rented a place at Royal Mills. Let me tell you, if this was in Providence, I'd move there in a heartbeat. It OWNS any other mill development out there right now. The balconies over the waterfall are amazing and the interiors are awesome, with artifacts from the mill's working days all over the place and a museum. They have so many amenities too, it's crazy. Their gym and clubhouse areas are the best I've seen, with bars, kitchens, pool tables, fooze ball, poker, coffee stations, etc. etc. all over the place. Even the parking garage has car lifts that lift one car over your other if you have two. Very nice development, and apparently it's finally starting to fill up.
http://www.royalmillsliving.com/
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Posted 09 September 2008 - 12:13 PM
Frankie811, on May 26 2008, 05:50 PM, said:
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Posted 05 June 2009 - 10:46 AM
PROJO: "Struever takes less active role in Cotton Shed project"
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