October 08, 2004
October 06, 2004
Wrecking Downtown: A Rebuttal
Evan Granoff: Jerry Garcia and the future of Providence
This is a pretty good piece from one of the developers targeting a downtown building for demolition. It's not exactly a rebuttal (despite my title), as he says:
Instead of focusing on the loss of the buildings, a more appropriate focus is what can be gained. By removing these two obsolete buildings, we are creating a significant development opportunity between the Turks Head Building and the Providence Arcade, an area of the city in need of new development. And a proper development in this area can revitalize these and other buildings in a way that is not possible now.
I don't think you'll find anyone to argue that, but it's likely we're looking at years of surface parking on the site in question. That's not good.
AND a reply from the executive director of Preserve Rhode Island.