For 50 years, an advocate for downtown success

Katie Castellani

03/28/2025

AT THE HELM: David Salvatore has been executive director of The Providence Foundation for less than a year, but the nonprofit business association has been focused on economic development and urban revitalization in downtown Providence for half a century.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Unless there was a sporting event or the circus was in town, David Salvatore was probably not venturing into downtown Providence when he was young in the 1980s. There wasn’t much going on otherwise. Salvatore, who was born and raised in the city’s Elmhurst neighborhood, never thought he’d see the amount of development and activity

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