[CPEO-BIF] East Providence, Rhode Island waterfront

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plans progress for waterfront village at blighted East Providence site


By Christine Dunn
Providence Journal (RI)
November 6, 2009

EAST PROVIDENCE - Weeds, broken pieces of railroad track and a 
graffiti-marked retaining wall characterize the narrow strip of land off 
Veterans Memorial Parkway bordering the Providence River.

Across the parkway from the Metacomet Country Club, a small parking area 
for the East Bay Bike Path is adjacent to the 25-acre brownfield site — 
the former Gulf Oil petroleum storage facility from 1909 to 1984.

By late 2010, construction crews could be at work on the first phase of 
an ambitious development plan for the site, called Village on the 
Waterfront.

Four buildings, including 125 condominiums and townhouses and 40,000 
square feet of retail and commercial space, are planned for the first 
phase of the project. Plans call for another 480 residential units by 
the time the entire development is completed.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.projo.com/ri/eastprovidence/content/HO_Waterfront_Village_11-08-09_5TG8QUP_v42.1c5e420.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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