Housing Workshop Tuesday, November 11

You can’t build a neighborhood without neighbors. Could new market-based and workforce-affordable housing be the key to re-creating a lively retail and entertainment district along North Main Street?
Join us at the offices of the Providence Center, 528 North Main Street, opposite Whole Foods and University Heights for a workshop on the potential for new residential [...]

Early replies favor intersection change

As of Sunday, we have had 26 folks weigh in on the idea of making the Smithfield Ave. intersection with North Main Street two-way. While not conclusive, only a small number object and those on the basis of specific concerns that would have to be addressed by engineering studies before the project could go ahead. We’ll [...]

Stakeholders open to master plan for Sear and Shaws site

The three largest landholders in the largely underused areas north of Smithfield Avenue and west of North Main Street have agreed in principle to participate in a joint master planning process should one be developed. So have the city planning departments of both Providence and Pawtucket. After hearing about these conversations from North Main Street [...]

Oct. 7: Problems and potential at Sears

   

For decades now, the empty Sears has symbolized neglect of North Main Street.

In the minds of many neighbors one empty building, the abandoned former Sears department store, is both the leading cause and major consequence of North Main’s problems. Yet, big as it is, this property is just one corner of a vast swath of [...]

Living history – No. Main and the neighbors

 
About 30 Summit and Mount Hope neighbors gathered at the Carriage House Theater on Sept. 23 for an evening of North Main Street history from Mack Woodward of the Rhode Island Historic Preservation and Heritage Commission and Dr. Robert Cvornyek, Chairman of the History Department at Rhode Island College.
Mack traced the structural and commercial evolution [...]