Providence Projects v2.1

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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

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UP IN PROGRESS: Route 195 Relocation/Washington Bridge Park

IN PROGRESS: 70 Kennedy Plaza

IN PROGRESS AS220/Perishable Theatre

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.

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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

IN PROGRESS: Grant's Block

The Westminster Street Lofts

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GTECH

Renderings from IN PROGRESS: GTECH

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 The new Renaissance Hotel

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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

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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.

-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 caf

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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.

-PROPOSED: 200 Dyer Street

PROPOSED: 333 Atwells Avenue (Rialto Furniture)

Route 6/10 Interchange Project

Status: PROPOSED

Location: Olneyville

Read about the 4 project alternatives at RIDoT's 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.

-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

PROPOSED: Heritage Harbor Mixed-Use

PROPOSED: Imperial Place

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

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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 PROPOSED: The "Power Block"

PROPOSED: The "Power Block"

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 {sodEmoji.{sodEmoji.|}} Promenade

Links:

UP PROPOSED: Providence Fruit & Produce Warehouse

UP Carpionato Properties

PROPOSED: Richmond Square mixed-use

RISD {sodEmoji.{sodEmoji.|}} Chase Center

Status: PROPOSED

Location: North Main Street {sodEmoji.{sodEmoji.|}} Downcity/College Hill

Use: Museum expansion, auditorium, student galleries, and caf

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The Waterford Residences (Westin 2nd Tower)

Status: PROPOSED

Location: 21 Emmit Square {sodEmoji.{sodEmoji.|}} 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

PROPOSED: WBNA 1577 Westminster St. housing

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]

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 June 13, 2005 by Indy

[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 June 13, 2005 by Recchia

[KRC]

Thank you very much, Indy. You did a great job.

[CtownMikey]

you made me cream myself!!!! I've been waiting for a rendering like this!! thank you!

I guess I'm a geek, but you made my bad day SO much better

[CtownMikey]

hewwo is this bridge over rt 95 just an idea thought up on uRbanpLanet?? or has it been proposed?

[Cotuit]

hewwo is this bridge over rt 95 just an idea thought up on uRbanpLanet?? or has it been proposed?

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It's from Duany's design charrette last year, I have a rendering of it I can scan.

[Cotuit]

I did this in Photoshop using some photos posted on this site

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That's awesome, you should put some other fantasy stuff in there, go to town on it!