195 Providence Innovation & Design District

[New England Born & Raised]

I thought it might make things easier if a link to the district's web site that lists all its projects with updates was readily available:

Providence Innovation & Design District | Waterfront Parcels

www.195district.com

 

[nicanbot]

Interested to see what will come out of the parcel 2 RFP they put out not long ago. 6 and 28 and the one the hotel is on are going gangbusters - looks to be anyway.

 

[New England Born & Raised]

Future progress on Parcel 6 construction should jump start the development of the remaining parcels on the eastern side of the river, especially if the rumored ground floor tenant is Trader Joe's.

 

[New England Born & Raised]

The completed Chestnut Commons:

 

[New England Born & Raised]

The completed 225 Dyer Street & Garrahy Garage with the future Aloft Hotel to the right under construction:

 

[New England Born & Raised]

The Wickenden Street Parcel 6 construction site. This is the residential building with a large ground level 13,000 sf market space that is rumored to be Trader Joe's.

Parcel 6 architectural rendering:

Parcel 6 link:

Parcel 6

www.195district.com

 

[New England Born & Raised]

Parcel 28 - 248 residential unit Emblem 125 construction site:

Emblem 125

www.195district.com

 

[New England Born & Raised]

Emblem 125 building progress update 08-01-2021

 

[New England Born & Raised]

Aloft Hotel building progress update (they were hoping to open by the end of summer):

 

[lilrhody]

I'd be interested to hear anyone's opinion on what this sale might mean for the future of the 195 district.

Brown purchases River House for $75m to use for grad student housing - The Boston Globe

The university said it will eventually transition the Jewelry District building from its current mix of private leases to all school-managed housing for students.

www.bostonglobe.com

 

[New England Born & Raised]

I'd be interested to hear anyone's opinion on what this sale might mean for the future of the 195 district.

Brown purchases River House for $75m to use for grad student housing - The Boston Globe

The university said it will eventually transition the Jewelry District building from its current mix of private leases to all school-managed housing for students.

www.bostonglobe.com

This building was originally proposed for and approved to be student housing for Brown med and URI/RIC nursing students that attend instruction and labs in the surrounding buildings. The developer changed course two years ago when they saw there was some demand from non students who wanted to live downtown on the river with a view of a marina. With the competition from the nearby Chestnut Commons and future Emblem 125 (under construction) intensifying, the developers probably decided to sell while its value was still high. They look to have made a tidy $20M+ profit selling it at $75M given its construction estimate of $62M got netted down to $53M with tax incentives of some $9M.

https://commerceri.com/incentives/tax-credits-and-financing/rebuild-rhode-island-tax-credit-riverhouse/

 

[lilrhody]

As the state considers construction of a new RIDOH lab on Parcel 25, I decided to dig up some old (highly speculative) renderings and diagrams of what 225 Dyer would look like as part of a collection of other, similarly modern office and lab buildings.

 

[New England Born & Raised]

Construction update on the Wickenden Street Parcel 6 construction site. This will be a residential building with a indoor parking garage and a large ground level 13,000 sf market space that is rumored to be Trader Joe's. The recently opened new construction South Water Street residential building is visible behind it.

 

[New England Born & Raised]

Emblem 125 at 125 Clifford Street in Providence building progress update from a vantage point which shows the mass of this project. It will be 256,000 square feet, the nearly $90 million development will include 248 residential units, 22,700 square feet of ground floor retail space among other lobby amenity areas and 1,800 square feet of rooftop space.

 

[DBM]

On a fine weekend afternoon, it is hard to convey, to those who haven't experienced it live, how delightful it is to walk across the still-relatively-new PVD pedestrian bridge here and take this all in.

Usually, when the phrase "knitting together the urban fabric" is deployed, it is done in a very trite, shallow, cynical way. But in this case, it is wholly justified. You feel you are encompassing all of Providence's urbanity, in just one short span...

 

[ctsketch]

On a fine weekend afternoon, it is hard to convey, to those who haven't experienced it live, how delightful it is to walk across the still-relatively-new PVD pedestrian bridge here and take this all in.

Usually, when the phrase "knitting together the urban fabric" is deployed, it is done in a very trite, shallow, cynical way. But in this case, it is wholly justified. You feel you are encompassing all of Providence's urbanity, in just one short span...

It really is a great bridge

 

[lilrhody]

An RFP has been released by the RI Commerce Corp for a new building housing private labs (min. 25,000 ft2) as well as the RIDOH state health laboratory (~80,000 ft2). Parcel 25 Lot 3 has been set aside for the project, though developers can propose constructing the lab on a parcel they own or alternate public site. The first phase of responses to the RFP are due December 10.

Request for proposals issued for new RIDOH lab building

PROVIDENCE – A request for proposals has been issued for a new facility for the R.I. Department of Health state health laboratories, the McKee administration announced Monday. The RFP, issued by R.I. Commerce Corp., seeks organizations qualified to develop and build the lab for the department...

pbn.com

 

[New England Born & Raised]

A photo of the Emblem 125 building progress as of 01-18-2022 taken from the intersection of Pine & Chestnut Streets.

 

[stick n move]

195 Commission Selects Boston Development Firm for Parcel 2 Despite Neighbors’ Opposition

https://www.golocalprov.com/busines...development-firm-for-parcel-2-despite-neighbo

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02...dence-river-pedestrian-bridge/?outputType=amp

 

[Lrfox]

I'm not in love with this design and it is a little out of scale compared to the residential neighborhood adjacent to it. But it is on the edge of downtown and it's a vital parcel along the riverfront. So it deserves something significant. I'm just not convinced this particular design is "it."

This is the parcel, for anyone who is unsure of where it is: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.819...=341.6909&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i16384!8i8192 - right next to Plant City.