Community
26 July 08 (Issue #16)
Request for more units in same space to be decided by Zoning Board of Review
by Ted Rao
[This article first appeared in The Agenda #16, March 2006]
On Tuesday, February 21st, representatives of Premier Land Development, led by Dan Corsetti and represented by their lawyer, former Lieutenant Governor Richard Licht, appeared before…
25 July 08 (Issue #16)
[This article first appeared in The Agenda #16, March 2006]
Downcity is a center of controversy—but not the up-in-arms, rally-in-the-streets, hullabaloo kind of controversy. Downtown Providence has become an architectural center of quiet contention.
“As far as I am concerned I am the city. So are you. You walk with it every…
Humor
28 June 07 (Issue #17)
City Council Protests, Is Dissolved
by John Taraborelli
In the boldest redevelopment proposal yet undertaken in the Renaissance City, Mayor Cicilline, in a press conference on Friday, March 31, revealed for the first time plans to construct an entirely new Providence on the grounds of the current one, to be completed in…
Community
11 April 07 (Issue #21)
The Fogarty Building was designed by Castellucci, Galli, & Planka, an architecture firm that has been in Rhode Island for 54 years. The building’s first floor stands almost six feet above street level, and truly, it does look like a structure made out of elbows. “I have made fun of…
Local
11 April 07 (Blog)
The Public Comment Period on the Providence Tomorrow Draft Comprehensive Plan has been extended until May 1. The public hearing previously scheduled for April 11 has been moved to May 2.
Where you can comment:
Online at www.providencetomorrow.org.
At local community centers and libraries.
At the Planning Department’s office.
Upcoming City Plan commission Public…
28 December 06 (Issue #21)
The Design Review Committee (DRC) met on November 13 to address two requests for demolition permits by the Procaccianti Group: one for the Fogarty Building (111 Fountain Street) and one for the Old Police and Fire Building in LaSalle Square. Though neither project hinges on the other, both are in…
Community
28 December 06 (Issue #21)
After the November 13 meeting of the Design Review committee, The Agenda followed up with further questions to get a better understanding of the public comment. Friedrich St. Florian and Friedrich St. Florian, who issued public comment at the meeting, spoke with us about their perspectives. Karen Jessup provided her…
Culture
14 December 06 (Issue #21)
The Design Review Committee (DRC) met on November 13 to address two requests for demolition permits by the Procaccianti Group: one for the Fogarty Building (111 Fountain Street) and one for the Old Police and Fire Building in LaSalle Square. Though neither project hinges on the other, both are in…
Community
7 October 06 (Issue #20)
by Judith Reilly
PROVIDENCE, September 10, 2006—For Sale: 12,500 square feet of Prime Studio Space – Only $175,000 – Easy financing! Affordable artist studio space – priced to sell!
Formerly for rent at $15* per sq. ft., you can now buy it for $175K! Located in an historic mill building in Eagle…
Local
27 September 06 (Issue #18)
by Jean Cozzens
During the month of March 2006, at the Fox Point Branch of the Providence Public Library, we built a giant cardboard city as a collaboration between a whole bunch of people, ranging in age from two through grandmother age. The outcome of the experiment was entirely unknown: introduce…
