SEAWORTHY: Terry Nathan, president of IYRS School of Technology and Trades, stands inside the footprint of the school's expansion project on Thames Street in Newport. The building and its systems were designed to withstand flooding. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO
The site was too good to pass up, a property adjacent to the IYRS School of Technology and Trades that would allow the nonprofit to add a new building and consolidate its now-separated programs in a single campus. But the property on Thames Street in Newport, overlooking Newport Harbor, also is in a velocity-rated flood…
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