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[pamslice]

I'm hoping to start some discussion here about where Hope artiste village is getting it's tenants from because I'm starting to see a pattern where some of these businesses that have formed this community are being taken from other struggling parts of Pawtucket that will now struggle more because of loosing what they already had.

Has your community lost a business to Hope artiste? Let's discuss.

[bloodyrocker]

I totally agree with this...

[frymasterspeck]

Pam, you're now officially on my list of top Bucketeers. This shows the kind of large systems thinking Pawtucket so dreadfully lacks. Planning types call it 'whole places' development. Whenever you plan or execute a development, this approach says you need to look at the many systems that the development affects: economy, environment, built environment, social fabric, etc. And here, you're looking at the total city economy and asking: Is this a net gain?

I have to say that I haven't seen anything in my area move over there. Can you cite specific examples? One restaurant is new, and one is new to the city. That's about all I know.

[weaveshed9]

Hi Everyone,

This is the management at the Hope Artiste Village.  Thank you for the interest in our building!  We are very proud of the community that has developed here.  It’s the result of a lot of work and creativity from our tenants, employees, contractors, and the City of Pawtucket.  We believe that an utterly unique community can be found here at the Hope Artiste Village with an incredible variety of businesses hailing from as far away as Italy!  We’re also proud to have been a key sponsor of the Pawtucket Arts Festival for 3 years, and we’ve held numerous free-to-the-public (not to us!) events, and we regularly sponsor fundraisers for non profits and charities.  We are happy to provide the business directory below and the following statistics:

240+ employees in the building
75 total businesses in the building
36 “new” businesses (includes numerous previous home-office businesses for which Hope Artiste Village is the company’s first commercial-leased space)
39 “existing” or “branch” businesses (any company that moved from another space into Hope Artiste Village or opened a branch office at Hope)
53 businesses new to Rhode Island
72 businesses new to Pawtucket
3 businesses moved from within Pawtucket to Hope Artiste Village
9 moved from Providence, 10 from other cities in RI, 5 from MA, 3 from CA, 2 from CT, 2 branch offices of national companies, and 1 each from NY, OK, TX, MD, and Italy

Below is our tenant directory, categorized by type of business.  We hope you’ll come explore the building, visit our tenants, and see for yourself what a unique place this is!

Regards,

The Management


Unit   - Type    -   Tenant / Company
109 Artist Studio The Hive Gallery/Tattoo Studio
117 Artist Studio Lisa Mackey Design
701 Artist Studio Keeseh Studio LLC
706 Artist Studio I.H.I. Design / Photography
706 Artist Studio Hatria Media
709 Artist Studio Michael Green
710 Artist Studio Olga Bravo/Becky Wagner
1209 Artist Studio Bryan Boyle Design
1221 Artist Studio Visual Post
2102 Artist Studio Gail Solomon
2104 Artist Studio Nate Watson
2105 Artist Studio Tyrone Campbell
2106 Artist Studio Michael Costa
2107 Artist Studio Mashed Technologies
2108 Artist Studio Margaret Allen
2134 Artist Studio Ross Lenizing
2201 Artist Studio Rupert Whitely Photography
2204 Artist Studio Phoenix Photography
2211 Artist Studio Contrast Art Gallery
2219 Artist Studio Mystic Music
2222 Artist Studio Lucky Bird Studio
2224 Artist Studio Stephen Kivimaki - Glass Blower
101-103 Light Manufacturing Seven Stars Bakery
104 Light Manufacturing New England Apparel
107 Light Manufacturing Blue State COfficeee, LLC
108 Light Manufacturing New Harvest Coffee
112 Light Manufacturing The Green Friendly Golf Co.
114 Light Manufacturing Artiste Windows, LLC
707 Light Manufacturing Ahler's Design
708 Light Manufacturing Charlies Playhouse
711A Light Manufacturing CIGI
712 Light Manufacturing Warlick Furniture Design
713 Light Manufacturing Anne Spalter
1103 Live Work General Packet
1104 Live Work Clinical Associates
1105 Live Work CJ Design
1109 Live Work Touch of Luxury
1111 Live Work Red Bull
110 Office Rhode One Technology
116 Office One Wellness
705 Office Solution Nexus
1201 Office Urban Smart Growth
1208 Office Academia Italiana
1210 Office Forsythe Appraisals
1211 Office Total Financial Freedom, LLC
1213 Office Ultimate Packaging Supplies
1215 Office Roberts for Lt. Govenor
1217 Office Mabbet & Associates
1223 Office Gurnet Consulting
2205 Office American Partners, Inc.
2205 Office Hope Staffing, Inc
8201 Office McCarten Violins, LLC
1226 Office Tavares and Associates
8211 Office Pisano & Associates
2117 Office Shazamm
2118 Office Right Stuff
2130 Office Harrington Law
8101 Office Atrion
8120 Office PIRE - Institute for Research
105-106 Physical Arts Ocean State Flyers
111 Physical Arts McWalters Pilates Studio
702 Physical Arts Dancin' Spirit
703 Physical Arts Ultimate Fight Club
714 Physical Arts Internal Arts
8113 Physical Arts Jennifer Kennedy Studios
1112 Restaurant The Blackstone
1113 Restaurant Rosinha
8214 Restaurant Tina's Caribbean Restaurant/Café
2132 Retail Catrina's Village
2215 Retail Herbal Life
2221 Retail Dalton Insurance Agency
2225 Retail Face2Face Games
2228 Retail AA Universal Toners
2230 Retail Die Hard Games
2233 Retail Catz - Exotic wear

[pamslice]

frymaster, as a bucketeer, does that mean I get to wear a bucket on me hed?! are Kirsten and Joe still around, can I at least get the teeshirt?

I know that topic header was a bit harsh sounding, I really don't mean to diss Hope artiste, I've been hearing some talk and just wanted to hear if there was any more.

First of all, I do think that Hope artiste is indeed fantastic in many, many ways, they really have built a wonderful thing down there and I commend them on the hard work they've done wholeheartedly. It's just that sometimes trying to do a good thing can blind you to what was already good to begin with, if you had just looked at it through a different lens.

I'm speaking specifically about Luke records on Broadway. I came to find out recently to my delight that Luke was fully up and running again, for about a year now. For those of you who don't know, Luke will be celebrating his 30 yr anniversary this year, he's got one of the best used record collections around, what's old is what's new, Luke's getting pretty good business again, he had shut down over the last couple of years, so it was nice to see him back. Anyway, when I stopped in to see him recently, he mentioned that someone from hope artiste village had approached him because they saw the for sale sign and offered him a spot with them. I understand the Hope artiste village representative was just trying to help someone who appeared to be a struggling business owner, which I do think is a great thing, but it's just that Luke actually owns that building, Luke said no to the big box store CVS 15 or so years ago, when everyone else on the block wanted to sell. (sounds a little like "urban smart growth" doesn't it?) He also used to run our neighborhood association. The point is, our neighborhood struggles to keep it's good stuff already, it bothered me that someone tried to sell Luke a new place to set up shop rather than just buying something from him to actually support his business.

Representatives from Hope artiste have also made an extremely strong attempt over the years to move the Pawtucket farmers market there, another struggling entity that a number of people have spent an amazing amount of time and effort trying to build in the downtown/pleasant view area. Thankfully reason and good sense prevailed and the Pawtucket Farmers' Market is staying Downtown at the Slater Mill which will keep it best accessible to the whole city of Pawtucket and is the perfect upgrade in venue for a quickly growing market. (just for reference, it took Hope st/lippet pk the last 10 years to build into what it is now). All of Pawtucket benefits from year round farmers' markets now, what a lucky city we are!

If Pawtucket is going to develop in a way that is healthy for the whole community, then the whole community needs to be constantly considered when development is planned.

Isn't it also smarter to just go shop with each other and support each others businesses all over the city instead of trying to move things that people have already struggled to build? I would really like for people in Pawtucket to support each other more in making good stuff happen all around the city rather than competing over the good bits that are already here, that's all.

[frymasterspeck]

First of all, SOMEONE who watches these boards quite closely was kinda down on them - for reasons that have nothing to do with us users and our discussings. This, my friend, is why UP is crucial to this region.

Second, massive kudos to HAV for responding directly. And 2 out of 70 something as intra-city transplants is a GREAT record. Too bad that one of them was a critical part of your neighborhood, Pam. HAV, if you're still reading, you may note that I do not write or even speak your given name - either here or on my blog or in person - because it is not a good one. The snootiness of the additional "e" is badly out of character with the city of Pawtucket. Just walk in your surrounding neighborhood to get a sense of where you are. I call you Hope Village or HAV or Urban Smart Growth.

Third, Joe and Kirsten hold down the northwestern-most outpost of "new Pawtucket" in the former Schafer Furniture building on Broad St. Don't know about them shirts.

Fourth, bucket-helmet wearing is only permissible for those with blood-alcohol levels at least twice the legal limit, so .16% in RI.

Fifth, the Pawtucket Pride folks did yeoman's work (yeo-mama's work?) on the back of the Slater's Mill parking lot, so that FM can feel better. (Park-ish area in front of Tolman also looking SWEEET! We can haz bike path?)

[pamslice]

This is why I hate this blogging thing. I haven't come across clearly. I apologize.

Please, let me clarify. I am NOT accusing Hope Artiste Village or anyone from Urban Smart growth of taking anything away from my neighborhood in any way at all. I repeat, I am not aware of any business from my neighborhood that has moved to Hope Artiste.  

I brought it up because another person I was talking with about development in Pawtucket agrees there might be some problems with the phenomena of "harvesting" businesses for development projects from within the immediate community. I understand helping out a business that needs a place to go, absolutely. Who wouldn't admire anyone who tries to save a local business, that's a good thing, no argument there.

There's finally some really great things going on in this crazy little city/town, thanks to Hope Artiste, Pawt. foundation, the City and many unrecognized people who have worked really hard to make the good stuff stick. PPD rocked no doubt, buckets of thanks to everyone who helped out.

I also agree the extra "e" is maybe a tiny bit pretentious. I pronounce the words hope artiste, hope artist.

Kirsten used to make these awesome "bucket" tees. they're fantastic, it would be so cool if she made more. do you talk to them? if so, tell them Pam said yo.