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I would guess the great success of the nearby Pawtucket commuter rail station has much to do with this project going forward despite the rising costs for materials and financing.

WPI rented ten former Becker properties with nine being used for housing. WPI has doubled in size in recent decades. It just welcomed 1300 new freshmen to campus this past weekend. It very much needs more housing to accommodate its undergrad enrollment that now exceeds 5k. The location of...

https://www.valleybreeze.com/news/major-pawtucket-project-back-and-ready-to-go/article_4b841154-5e3f-11ef-a44d-eb54abd0794e.html

https://pbn.com/rhode-island-fc-hires-firm-to-seek-naming-rights-for-tidewater-stadium/

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/08/12/facilities

The City of Pawtucket recently purchased the nearby Apex property that was once the proposed home for the PawSox and has packaged it with several other adjacent properties for development. These parcels are on the east bank of the river just north of Tidewater Landing and Rte 95. While not...

Recent aerial photo

The prep work for the site is progressing quite fast. Took these photos this past Sunday:

Update on former station https://www.valleybreeze.com/townnews/railway/grant-sought-to-pay-for-old-train-station-s-demolition/article_1cb4fd80-532b-11ef-8890-ebcf91b33f4e.html

Keep in mind that the Boston Globe is owned by John Henry who is the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox which in turn have an ownership stake in the WooSox.

That small gray building is the Elks Club. The US Coast Guard Station is to its right.

Brady Sullivan, the developer, has done numerous mill conversions to residential use in RI. The American Tourister mill in adjacent Warren was one of their projects. If my memory is right, this project will also include a harbor walk around it and the old Armory(now harbor master) which will...

Project Update https://pbn.com/city-plan-commission-to-consider-updated-plans-for-mixed-use-development-in-college-hill/

Went by there this weekend and there still appears to be little construction progress. Outside area is still all fenced off. The news articles from November 2023 that announced the Track 15 name along with some of the expected vendors listed Summer of 2024 as the projected open date. That...

Location: Denver and Kinnicutt Avenues, south of Frerichs Farm in Warren, RI. Center right edge of this map:

Yesterday's (Tuesday 07-09-2024) announced crowd of 4,370 certainly did not help this year's attendance. It was the 12th game of the season that had numbers in the 3-4k range in the 9,508 capacity Polar Park. That is over a 1/4 of the 42 gate events thus far.

This source from a few weeks ago lists Worcester as having the tenth highest minor league baseball average attendance (6,405 thru the 06/09/24 home game) thus far for the 2024 season. While attendance is down overall in the minors to date, the WooSox finished sixth the previous two seasons...

The Telegram asked the Worcester Red Sox this question last season and the team refused comment. The paper was questioning the official announced attendance for early season games as it did not seem to reflect the actual number of people in the park. The general assumption was the number was...

The attendance for this past Saturday was only 7,135. That is almost 2,400 short of a sellout. Weekend games in July and August should be experiencing near sellouts to offset expected lower numbers on weekdays.

Attendance at Polar Park is trending downward this season. The average through 41 game gates is 6,462 (total 264,942) which equates to 68% capacity of Polar Park (cap 9,508). Four admission gates were lost due to rain and snow cancellations with three of them becoming part of Polar Park one...