IN-PROGRESS: The Foundry

[quente]

I noticed last week that they've lit up one of the smokestacks at night with red and blue lights from the bottom - looks great! I hope they do that with the other smokestacks - it's a simple idea that really jazzes the place up.

[jencoleslaw]

I wish I could be there

[glassandsteel]

I'll be there too! Hope we run into eachother, I didn't think it was going to be as big an event as it apparently is going to be. 1,000 people?

Matt, I'll try to sneak some photos for you.

Is anybody else going? I'd love to see a strong showing by fellow UP folk.

[f1rehead]

I'll be there.

[jencoleslaw]

I'll be there.

[basachs]

i'll be there. As for a secret sign, I have sideburns...if anyone else can grow them in a couple of hours...

[jencoleslaw]

i'll be there. As for a secret sign, I have sideburns...if anyone else can grow them in a couple of hours...

[Lone Ranger]

we need a secret sign to identify ourselves as UPers.

[quente]

we need a secret sign to identify ourselves as UPers.

[kinematix]

Great time. got there a little late so I missed the people who spoke but I'd guess there was at least 7-800 people. Very cool space. Music was great too!

[Cotuit]

Music was great too!

[f1rehead]

I also thought it was too loud. Although it was worth it since I got to meet Jen and Cotuit.

Jack Gold told me there were 1200 people there last night.

[Garris]

I also thought it was too loud. Although it was worth it since I got to meet Jen and Cotuit.

[jencoleslaw]

it did not go unnoticed to see the line of people at the back window, completely hypmotized by the cars going by on 95. in retrospect, i wonder if it is because there's a comfort in being in one place, while everything around you is moving at breakneck speed. That you know you're safe, while all these colors and metals and rubber is moving past you while you're standing still...at first i thought it would suck to have that as your view, but as the evening wore on, and i found myself tuning out the music for a few seconds, i would watch the cars go by...there's something poetic there.

i wondered what it looked like from 95...

[jencoleslaw]

The Foundry looks to be a great space though (and would be even better with more appealing pedestrian connections to Downtown rather than it feeling like, well, the abadoned Promenade). We were all unsure of what exactly is going into that space. Residential?

- Garris

[Garris]

Hum, offices would make more sense to me... Seems like a potentially tough place for a hotel, given its location and literally being in the shadow of the Masonic Temple.

Now, off topic...

it did not go unnoticed to see the line of people at the back window, completely hypmotized by the cars going by on 95. in retrospect, i wonder if it is because there's a comfort in being in one place, while everything around you is moving at breakneck speed. That you know you're safe, while all these colors and metals and rubber is moving past you while you're standing still...at first i thought it would suck to have that as your view, but as the evening wore on, and i found myself tuning out the music for a few seconds, i would watch the cars go by...there's something poetic there.

[mental757]

whoa, people - I need another coffee or something after reading these last posts...

[markOne]

the cars outside rush by like falling elevators

[ArtInRuins]

Anyone know about the latest work they are doing on the remaining part of the Foundry, the part closest to the highway? i heard it was going to be hotel rooms, but that was way back. I was wondering if was part of the Promenade or not. It is known now as the "Sharpe Building" when PPS and ConnectProv had an event there, but there is no mention of it on the Promenade website and the Journal hasn't seemed to have covered the new plans recently.

[Frankie811]

Anyone know about the latest work they are doing on the remaining part of the Foundry, the part closest to the highway?

[Cotuit]

I asked the same question a few months ago and provid ( formely mikepl ) responded that he thought it was going to be office space.

[mental757]

so instead of staring empty faced at the cars after work on one's couch - some group of office workers will do it from thier desk - lol

[Liamlunchtray]

My desk overlooks a dirt parking lot full of truck trailers and a mobile datacenter truck set up to demo to customers. I think overlooking traffic flow sounds like a great improvement.

[Gusterfell]

Yes, some of us at the PPS event were marveling about what a nice space it would be to live in and how strangely seductive the view of the traffic zipping by on Route 95 was at night. We were disappointed to learn that it was slated to be office space. Not that I would have likely been able to afford to live there anyway.

[Griswald]

I got a tour of the Promenade before they opened - at the PPS winter ball in 05 I believe - and I definitely loved it. Great old building, big spaces, nicecly renovated, fitness center & pool, proximity to downtown, parking. Unfortunately they were all for rent only, the nicer units very expensive. I would consider living there once the option to buy comes around, but it will probably be too expensive for me.