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Providence development update
1:57PM ON
02/01/2008
BY
Dave Segal
We’re back in one of those phases where everything is crazypants. Here’s a quick overview:
- 110 Westminster/W Hotel: Developers demolish most of two buildings a few years ago. Announce the project a half-dozen times but never break ground. Initial plans for a mixed condo/hotel tower are now dead, but sometime soon the new owner might let us know if it wants to build a W hotel there. The 110 website is now gone.
- St Francis Chapel Hotel: A new tower will be built, and the whole thing will be a Hampton Inn. Bunch of monks get booted out in the process. Photo here.
- Blue Cross office tower: Blue Cross gets a big tax break to move from one side of town to the other. Construction is underway. Photo here.
- Capital Cove: After months of labor strife, developer and unions work out a deal, and mid-range rez project moves forward at full steam.
- Providence Fruit and Produce Warehouse: Owner gets sweet deal, contingent on the rehab. Sits on the building for a few years, claims it’s dangerous, and starts to demolish it. Resurrects plans to turn it into a mixed-use office, retail, and hotel development.
- Vista Della Torre: As proposed, project is about six times as tall as zoning allows. It’d be the tallest, or one of tallest, buildings in the city. And on a hill. In a neighborhood full of triple-deckers. May or may not happen. The principal is a colorful character.
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