[I meant to post about this earlier, but I’ve been out of town. Sorry for the extremely short notice…] Today at 4:45 the DowncityDesign Review Committee will be hearing a request to demolish the old bank facade at 35 Weybosset Street (next to the arcade, in the Architectual Ruins District.) If you recall, back before …
David Brussat had a wonderful column in the ProJo yesterday about the sweet little Arnold Building on Washington Street (the shallowest building downtown) which suffered a fire last month. Apparently the damage wasn’t too terrible and there is hope that it can be saved, and not turned into another parking lot. His larger point is …
The Projo’s reporting on the proposal for a Ferris-wheel-ish parking structure on Weybosset St: PROVIDENCE — A Florida company is proposing what may soon be the strangest part of the Providence skyline: a pair of 13-story, translucent parking towers that operate like Ferris wheels, loading cars at the ground level and then moving them high …
Greater City Providence has some great/disheartening picture (via google’s creepy Street View) of Providence’s burgeoning asphalt jungle.