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City zoning set for a new generation
Providence’s former Jewelry District was physically reconnected to downtown last year when work crews demolished the old Interstate 195 highway overpass, but on city maps it remained isolated in zoning rules from another generation. more
Brown tight-lipped on district plans
When Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning at Brown University, came to College Hill a decade ago for the position that President Ruth Simmons, then one semester into her tenure, created for him, he didn’t know the role the two would end up playing in the creation of Providence’s so-called Knowledge District. more
Providence Viaduct improvements to get federal funding
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s congressional delegation last week announced that the state will receive federal funding to help replace the aging Providence Viaduct, a critical part of Interstate 95. more
6/25/12
Luxury student housing seen as rare growth market
The cinder-block dormitories and cramped, scruffy, off-campus apartments familiar to generations of college students are under attack. more
Behind the scenes in real estate
Resource Control Associates Inc. owner Robert C. Atwood, pictured above in his office, thinks of his firm as “a land-development company.” The 26-year-old Pawtucket business has groups of advisers focused on civil-engineering, environmental assessment and remediation and forensic engineering. Consulting services include insurance-claim investigations. Atwood often provides expert testimony. The firm has worked for more than 50 municipalities and public authorities throughout Rhode Island and Massachusetts, as well as several hundred private clients. more
6/25/12
Arcade coming back to life
Thanks to an estimated $2 million in state historic-preservation tax credits, the Arcade is being repurposed for a retail-residential use. Frank Angevine of Built Inc. cuts plastic sheeting in the 19th-century landmark, but the lack of action by the General Assembly in renewing the tax-credit program makes it unlikely that more projects will be undertaken soon. See Page 12 for more. more
7/2/12
Beta Group and GLA announce merger
Landscape architecture firm Gates, Leighton & Associates is merging with Engineering firm Beta Group Inc. after roughly 20 years of collaboration. more
| 7/6/12
Viaduct plan gets biz backing
You don’t need a $179 million bridge-replacement project to cause traffic jams on Interstate 95 in downtown Providence. The car volume and traffic patterns on the stretch of highway between the Dunkin’ Donuts Center and the Statehouse do that already. more
Westminster Street parking lot opens
The empty lot created by the demolition of the former Providence National Bank in the Financial District in anticipation of a condominium tower that never materialized has opened as a parking lot. more
| 7/6/12
Military housing went from job to vocation after 9/11
John Picerne was raised on the real estate business in the third-generation Picerne Real Estate Group. But the further he went in the family business, the less comfortable he became with the boom-and-bust cycles of residential housing. Craving a more stable slice of the market, Picerne ventured into military housing, particularly building apartments on Army bases, and broke off the independent Picerne Military Housing in 2005. more
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