NYT: A Reform School, Reborn
CRANSTON, R.I. — This suburb of Providence has not been spared the economic decline that has swept the rest of Rhode Island, where the unemployment rate, 10.5 percent, is one of the highest in the country. In this city of 80,000 people, home foreclosures have risen, and the bankrupt retailer Circuit City and other stores have closed in Garden City Center, Cranston’s well-known shopping center.
Despite this slide, however, one Rhode Island developer has been steadily plowing forward with a $90 million mixed-use project here. Carpionato Properties, based in nearby Johnston, is taking an unusual 30-acre site, where Rhode Island’s reform school for boys once stood, and creating an outdoor shopping center called Chapel View, named for an 1891 stone chapel on the property...
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Cranston: NYTimes on Chapel View
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, May 06 2009 07:16 AM
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Posted 08 May 2009 - 08:40 AM
Wow, they quote one of the anecdotes on my page about the school. The NYTimes pays attention to AIR, I'm flattered. I guess I am part of the liberal elite, now...
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Posted 09 May 2009 - 07:42 AM
ArtInRuins, on May 8 2009, 08:40 AM, said:
Wow, they quote one of the anecdotes on my page about the school. The NYTimes pays attention to AIR, I'm flattered. I guess I am part of the liberal elite, now...
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Posted 13 May 2009 - 06:39 AM
BBascule, on May 6 2009, 09:16 AM, said:
NYT: A Reform School, Reborn
CRANSTON, R.I. — This suburb of Providence has not been spared the economic decline that has swept the rest of Rhode Island, where the unemployment rate, 10.5 percent, is one of the highest in the country. In this city of 80,000 people, home foreclosures have risen, and the bankrupt retailer Circuit City and other stores have closed in Garden City Center, Cranston's well-known shopping center.
Despite this slide, however, one Rhode Island developer has been steadily plowing forward with a $90 million mixed-use project here. Carpionato Properties, based in nearby Johnston, is taking an unusual 30-acre site, where Rhode Island's reform school for boys once stood, and creating an outdoor shopping center called Chapel View, named for an 1891 stone chapel on the property...
CRANSTON, R.I. — This suburb of Providence has not been spared the economic decline that has swept the rest of Rhode Island, where the unemployment rate, 10.5 percent, is one of the highest in the country. In this city of 80,000 people, home foreclosures have risen, and the bankrupt retailer Circuit City and other stores have closed in Garden City Center, Cranston's well-known shopping center.
Despite this slide, however, one Rhode Island developer has been steadily plowing forward with a $90 million mixed-use project here. Carpionato Properties, based in nearby Johnston, is taking an unusual 30-acre site, where Rhode Island's reform school for boys once stood, and creating an outdoor shopping center called Chapel View, named for an 1891 stone chapel on the property...
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