West End mill to become incubator

PROVIDENCE – A vacant, West End mill complex will be converted to a culinary and startup incubator program, using a combination of historic-preservation tax credits and city property tax incentives.

The City Council this month gave final approval to a 15-year schedule of graduated tax payments for the Armory Kitchen Entrepreneur Incubator Program.

Developer Cromwell Ventures LLC plans to rehabilitate the former Klein Building, at 55 Cromwell St., as well as two adjacent, vacant buildings. Altogether, 70,000 square feet of building space will be rehabbed, and a vacant lot redeveloped.

The proposed Room & Works project will be aimed at young professionals, including recent college graduates, who want to live and work in shared space. It will include 40 apartments, primarily one bedroom, as well as 10,000 square feet of communal work space, available for short-term leases, according to a project overview. Two commercial-grade kitchens will be opened for food entrepreneurs at affordable and flexible terms. •

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