AN AERIAL VIEW of the life sciences and innovation center that Wexford Science & Technology has been approved to build in the former Interstate 195 land in Providence. The first phase of the development is estimated to cost $158 million and will include a 170-room hotel and a 191,000-square-foot Innovation Building. / COURTESY WEXFORD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(Updated 9:23 a.m. and 4:23 p.m.) PROVIDENCE – The I-195 Redevelopment District Commission authorized a series of incentives Monday to attract Wexford Science & Technology LLC, as well as the Cambridge Innovation Center, to two prime parcels of the former highway land. In a presentation made in public session, the principals of both companies, as…