Stadium & Riverwalk | Tidewater Landing | Pawtucket

News on the pedestrian bridge...
https://www.wpri.com/news/local-new...idge-near-tidewater-landing-expected-in-2025/
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Well that's fine news, I guess. I won't hold my breath until it's open, but progress is progress.
 
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 directly part of the original Tidewater Landing project, these properties have been targeted to complement it since the stadium was first proposed.

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Pawtucket officials will seek bids on Apex, George’s Games properties

PAWTUCKET – Years of stagnation may finally be coming to an end for a collection of properties on Main Street, where officials are poised to seek bids on the redevelopment
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These parcels are in the top right quadrant of this map. Tidewater Landing is in the bottom right.
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Rhode Island FC hires firm to seek naming rights for Tidewater Stadium

PAWTUCKET – Rhode Island FC and the Tidewater Landing stadium’s management team are partnering with a Cleveland-based sponsorship valuation consulting firm to help find a company to have the soccer club’s soon-to-be-completed 10,500-seat waterfront stadium along the Seekonk River named after it...
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I think they should get Enron to sponsor the stadium, as this will end up about as well as that did. 140M for a 11k minor league soccer stadium that will draw about 3k a game. Yikes.
 
Currently creating a 1:1 scaled model of Tidewater Landing and the surrounding area in Minecraft, super excited for all of this to open irl I can't help but make it here:

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Are there plans for the new stadium to host American Football? This would be a great place to host the state championship games for soccer and football. Maybe URI can play Bryant here at some point? The price tag seems crazy for a 11k soccer stadium.
 
Seanflynn78 said:
Are there plans for the new stadium to host American Football? This would be a great place to host the state championship games for soccer and football. Maybe URI can play Bryant here at some point? The price tag seems crazy for a 11k soccer stadium.
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I would not be surprised to see the stadium eventually become the permanent home for Brown Football. Brown Stadium is very old with few modern amenities. It is off campus on the East Side of Providence about 1.5 miles from the main quad. Tidewater Landing is just another 1.5 miles further.

Brown could use the Brown Stadium land for other purposes (perhaps more athletic practice fields as was done with the former Marvel Gym next to it) or subdivide it into house lots where it would make some good money given its toney neighborhood.
 
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Seanflynn78 said:
Are there plans for the new stadium to host American Football? This would be a great place to host the state championship games for soccer and football. Maybe URI can play Bryant here at some point? The price tag seems crazy for a 11k soccer stadium.
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From what I’ve heard during my time of taking the tour of the stadium so far, they stated that they’re planning on this stadium to be transformed, not only for soccer but for football, lacrosse, festivals and concerts.

So yes, there will be plans to host American football sometime in the future not sure which schools will be involved.
 
Pawtucket's pitch to keep Hasbro in the city looks like it will be focused on potential sites along the river by Rte 95 that were to be part of the overall Tidewater Landing development. All of the possible parcels are presently owned by the city which would help facilitate the process. The former Apex store plot would likely be the proposed location for a new HQ. It would provide a modern new facility that offers great visibility with Rte 95 draping around it. It however would not solve the possible employee talent issue raised in another thread in the RI forum.


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Officials see riverfront as potential landing spot for Hasbro

PAWTUCKET – In 2019, when a new soccer stadium on the city’s riverfront was just a proposal, Rhode Island FC founder Brett Johnson said it would be a dream to
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Has anyone seen any data-based argument against the "talent pool" being an issue point? Genuinely curious. Been in RI since 2018 and most people I know are professionals from other cities who were priced out. Also people generally have been so on the move over the past 4 years. And we are having national issues with unemployment. I earnestly just don't understand it. Get the Executive preference and smallness of RI piece but not the talent pool - would presume Hasbro could pull from anywhere.
 
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And we are having national issues with unemployment.
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Did you declare Opposite Day, and not notify the rest of us? ;)

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/1222714145/jobs-report-december-labor-wages

Also, it's worth reiterating what the Hasbro CEO said--that their HQ is in very degraded condition:

Within the last year, Hasbro has consolidated its Rhode Island-based teams into one central 343,000-square-foot headquarters on Newport Avenue in Pawtucket. "Our Pawtucket building is full of charm and history, but it is also showing its age,” Cocks wrote in his message to employees. According to real estate records, the building was first constructed in 1950 and was last appraised in 2023 for $2.93 million.

Think about that for a minute: this property is 343,000 sq.-ft., but it's only assessed at $2.93 million. In comparison, here's an almost identically-sized property in Downtown Boston, 600 Washington, which is also in fairly degraded, non-competitive condition. But it's still assessed at $77 million as you can see from the link: 26 times more valuable than Hasbro's current HQ.

For all that implies about what ratty condition their condition their HQ is in, that seems significant.

So to that extent, I think you're definitely right, the "talent pool" claim is probably a deflection/smoke-screen.


 
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