And the honor should not be shared. (State politics being what they are, that needed saying.) Two proposals for renaming the IWay Bridge have been introduced to the Senate Committee for Special Legislation. According to the Providence Journal, “It’s not something I am going to cause a stink about,” said Sen. Josh Miller, D-Cranston, on …
(9.1) When architect William Warner first surveyed this site it was a scrawny river almost completely obscured by parking lots and railroad tracks . . . but somehow he saw this. The New York Times wrote up Waterplace Park back in 1999, THE Providence that greeted a generation of visitors during the dark days of …
Talk about the right man at the right time. William Warner was the architect and planner who saw the big picture — the really big picture — back in the 80’s when downtown Providence was a shabby dump. He could see that if we just pulled up the parking lots, pulled down the railroad bridges, …