After 15 years of infrastructure inactivity, Broad Street – a 2.6 mile stretch of road through the heart of Providence’s South Side — is being repaved – at a cost of $1.8 million. As part of the state transportation project, the street is being paved, sidewalks are being repaired and utility companies are reworking underground lines.
Residents and business owners have been calling for just these kinds of improvements to Broad Street for years.
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Besides the state road project, Southside/Broad Street, a neighborhood and business coalition, has been working since last summer with Fred Hollman, a landscape architect from Roger Williams Park and Joel Boodem, of the city’s department of planning and development, to design the landscape of four sites on Broad Street. The sites to be landscaped are Algonquin House, City Arts!, Trinity Square (near Grace Church Cemetery) and Cahill Square (where Broad Street and Prairie Avenue meet) at a cost of $100,000 from Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds.
Another accomplishment on the street is the redesigned entrance to Roger Williams Park, which had been neglected for years.
Southside/Broad Street will also kick off a Visual Enhancement project this summer in order to work with businesses, providing them with specific design opportunities to improve their façades. That project will be financed through a Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC) grant.
