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[mental757]

PROJO:  "Hotel, retail project planned for Stuarts property in Johnston"

http://www.projo.com..._v1.812abf.html

[mod134]

Here's an image of the site:
Local Live

I'm happy this site is finally getting developed. I can remember as a kid when this actually had businesses in most of the lot when Stuarts was still operating. Looking forward to this and if anybody needs pics of it, just let me know.

[Recchia]

Yay more sprawl for Johnston!  And right on Atwood Ave, no congestion there!  Lets see if the town understands the phrase "off-site improvements" this time...

Seriously though, I guess any development activity should be taken in this economy...  Anyone else wonder though why the developer wants to do this when they admit it will be very hard to find tenants?

[mental757]

PROJO:  "Excavator signals start of Johnston hotel project"

http://www.projo.com...51.3b3cad7.html

[mental757]

PBN 9/26/09:  "Hartford Ave. project paves way for plaza"

http://pbn.com/detail/45069.html

[Frankie811]

Public financing sought to redevelop Stuart Plaza in Johnston

Town officials and a hotel developer are negotiating a public financing arrangement for the redevelopment of the blighted Stuart’s Plaza property on Hartford Avenue.

http://www.projo.com...29.37d318e.html

[mental757]

PROJO:  "Development district established for plaza"

http://www.projo.com...73.30f1320.html

[Cotuit]

Recchia, on 31 October 2008 - 07:38 PM, said:

Yay more sprawl for Johnston!  And right on Atwood Ave, no congestion there!  Lets see if the town understands the phrase "off-site improvements" this time...

This area is screaming out for TOD. Right at the interchange of 6 and 295, commuters could drop their cars and take a BRT (to eventually become an LRT) into Providence. Redevelop all these damn plazas into a transit village with dense housing, office, and retail... sigh. What could be if their were any vision for it.

[Frankie811]

Johnston council approves $40M hotel-retail project

A redevelopment and project plan, part of a developer's $8.4-million public financing proposal for the revitalization of blighted properties on Hartford Avenue, won unanimous approval from the Town Council Monday night.

http://newsblog.proj...evelopment.html

[Dan]

Cotuit, on 26 October 2009 - 03:00 PM, said:

Redevelop all these damn plazas into a transit village with dense housing, office, and retail... sigh. What could be if their were any vision for it.

...or money

[Cotuit]

Dan, on 20 November 2009 - 02:28 PM, said:

...or money

Well, money to re-imagine the whole area yes. But someone apparently has $40-million to start. If only someone in the city could say, "yes, we'd like you to invest $40-million dollars, but invest it on the curb please." Then we'd have the first step toward transforming the area.