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It was a sarcastic reference to what’s likely the least consequential “amenity” of this project for the demo that would buy here. I hate to say it though but with so many other options available I can’t imagine a lot of folks are super eager to live directly above a busy transit hub with some...

I would have thought the prospect of an elevator ride and a short walk to the intercity bus terminal might have been a bigger draw.

$2.9b according to Forbes. Not bad for a guy who dropped out of high school.

Unpopular opinion I know but no amount of trickle down or even subsidized housing is going to alleviate this crisis. Police actually need to be empowered and/or allowed to arrest people on petty drug charges or warrants to get them off the streets and show that this kind of antisocial behavior...

Looks like an iceberg of sterility. I would think the goal might have been to exude a sense of warmth and comfort rather than this cold and banal glass box that could occupy not just any hospital but any office park in the world.

And as stated above, the landlords will factor it into the rent and mark it up further to compensate for the added hassle and expense. Your naivety calls to mind the dipshits who don’t know how tariffs work.

They should start by putting Southcoast Rail on ice(what a stupid project to begin with). That part of the state was Trump’s strongest performer. He won Fall River. I realize there will be massive cuts ahead but start where they asked for it. No need to punish Greater Boston and the people...

And on the issues of character and congestion in Newport, these buckets don’t help either. Cruise ships have been coming here as long as I can remember but they’ve grown significantly in size in recent years.

Not new. Those renderings came out almost a week ago. I can’t imagine being so uninformed as to the existence of the BPDA website to actually pay for that glorified blog.

You should have gone to community meetings, written your city councilor and offered to finance the additional 18 to 38 stories then. Oh wait, lol.

So who among us will be submitting a proposal(besides DZH, Toshler and a maxed out Discover card)?

For starters triple the tolls on the Pell and add them on Mount Hope and 24. Not sure if it’s legal to do so but charge out of state registrations a higher rate while exempting Aquidneck residents. Newport itself should add meters everywhere possible. I parked on Kay Street in 2018 or 19 for...

The point is there was actually a time not that long ago when Thames Street wasn’t the soul-sucking tourist trap it is now. There were a lot of great little galleries and a stretch of fun bars and restaurants geared toward locals, sailors and people who worked around there. The entirety of the...

Have you ever actually been there? You come across as living under a rock and just having an agenda.

I haven’t driven into Newport in season in probably five years and I haven’t parked in a commercial lot or on the street for at least ten. It’s about the overcrowding and the rapidly diminishing character of the town.

Probably not but what they suffer with now is far more than the place can handle and it makes it both a less attractive place to live and to spend time for anyone acquainted with how much better it used to be. It’s one of those places that could be so much nicer if it was a lot harder to get to.

The last thing anyone who actually lives in or visits Newport regularly wants is more day trippers waddling up and down the sidewalks debating between the t-shirt or the refrigerator magnet to commemorate their visit.

https://www.rockefellercenter.com/magazine/arts-culture/guide-to-skylift-at-top-of-the-rock/

BA is all 787-10 next summer … brand new planes. Guess they’re refocusing on local traffic, a good J product and letting the leisure traffic go elsewhere.

Absolutely. And that was extraordinarily tame.