Tag: Providence Redevelopment Agency
Ex-Providence planning director to lead Roger Williams Park Conservancy
PROVIDENCE – Bonnie Nickerson, the former director of planning for the city of Providence, has been named the new executive director of the Roger...
City releases requests for information for Atlantic Mills project
PROVIDENCE – The Providence Redevelopment Agency on Tuesday released a Request for Information to interested firms to join an equity partnership with the city...
Without fanfare, Scout reviving former factory
John Rosenwinkel needed space to grow.
A founding member of the nonprofit PVD Bike Collective, Rosenwinkel began hearing about a developer of a repurposed building...
$35.7M Paragon Mill apartment project completed in Providence
PROVIDENCE – The long-vacant Paragon Mill complex at 144 Delaine St. in the Olneyville section of Providence was transformed into 101 units of mixed-income...
City Council gives final OK to amended ProvPort tax agreement
PROVIDENCE – The wave of criticism over the city’s tax agreement with its primary port operator appears to have calmed, with the City Council...
Providence Council postpones final approval on controversial ProvPort deals
PROVIDENCE – The new City Council postponed final decisions on tax and lease agreements with ProvPort Inc. on Thursday, opting to send the proposals...
Providence to demolish former Urban League building, redevelop property as ‘community...
PROVIDENCE – An Upper South Providence building that city preservationists had identified as culturally significant but "endangered" will be knocked down to make way...
City Council reverses course, approving contested ProvPort tax and lease agreements
PROVIDENCE – After previously postponing a decision on controversial tax and lease agreements with the city’s primary port operator, Providence officials reversed course and...
Votes on ProvPort tax exemption, lease postponed amid public opposition
PROVIDENCE – Community pleas to delay a decision on extending the city’s tax exemption and lease agreements with its primary port operator were granted...
Proposed ProvPort tax, lease agreement extensions advance despite public protest
PROVIDENCE – Controversial extensions to the tax and lease agreements with the operators of Providence's industrial port received preliminary approval from a city panel...