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Redeveloped:
1088 Main Street, Pawtucket
340 Broadway
755 Westminster Street
the Alice bldg
American Locomotive
American Woolen
Brown & Sharpe / Foundry
Calender Mills
Citizens Bank
Dreyfus Hotel
Dunlop Tire bldg
Engine Station 9
Firehouse 13
RISD’s Fletcher bldg.
General Electric
Heritage Harbor museum
Brown Hillel
Hive Archive
Hope Webbing
Hospital Trust bldg
Hotel Providence / Lederer bldg
L Vaughn Company
Lawton Family Storage / Pilgrim Congregational Church
Liberty Elm Diner
the Mason bldg
Monohasset Mills
Mowry-Nicholson House
Palmer bldg / Kosmopolitan
Parkin Yarn
Pawtucket Armory
Pearl St Lofts
Peerless bldg
People’s Bank, Kennedy Plaza
Providence Dyeing, Bleaching & Calendering
Providence Worsted Mills
Rau Fastner
RISD’s Center for Integrative Technologies
Riverside Lofts
Rolo Building
Royal Mills & Ace Dying
Ship Street lofts
Sockanosset School
Splinters Sports Pub
Summerfield bldg
the Steelyard
the Grant
Two Ton Inc.
Vinton Street
WBNA / for. Texaco Station
Wilkinson building


ReDEVELOPED {50 entries}

The properties listed below have gone through some redevelopment, or are slated to. Condos are the most popular, but other properties are becoming hotels.

1088 Main Street / Rag and Bone Bindery
1088 Main Street, Pawtucket
Built 1920 // Purchased in 2002 by Rag & Bone bindery and converted into their studio space

340 Broadway
340 Broadway, Providence
Built ?? // On it’s way to becomming a new branch of the Seven Stars bakery empire. Co.

755 Westminster Street
755 Westminster Street, Providence
Built late 1800’s // Rehabbed in 2001-2002 by Armory Revival Co.

the Alice Building
236 Westminster Street, Providence
Built early 1898 // Rehabbed in 2002-2003 under Cornish Associates’ ownership

American Locomotive Works, for. US Rubber
Valley Street, Providence
Built ?? // Plans to redevelop the 22 acre complex with a mix of retail, office, residential, new construction and rehabbed mill buildings

American Woolen
55 Aleppo Street, Providence
Built early 1900s // Rehabbed as mix use as part of the River Greenway Project

Brown and Sharpe / the Foundry
Promenade Street, Providence
Built 1872 and later // On its way to being high priced condos and dubbed the Promenade

Calender Mills
50 and 52 Valley Street, Olneyville
Built 1875 // Part of the former Providence Dyeing Bleaching and Calendering Company, to become residential apartments and commercial space

the old Citizens Bank
Empire Street, Providence
Built ?? // To be the new Pell Chafee Performance Center, a wing of Trinity Rep

the Dreyfus Hotel
121 Washington St, Providence
The old hotel, once used as dorms for Johnson and Wales, will become 16 live/work units, 10 work units, and a ground floor restaurant, under the ownership of AS220

the Dunlop Tire / Conley Wharf
Allens Ave, Providence
Not sure what is going on over here, but the building looks better than ever, and poised for some sort of new life.

Engine no. 9
Pallas St, Providence
Built ?? // Privately owned artist studio

Firehouse 13
41 Central Street, Providence
Built ?? // A multi-level art space with a first floor gallery, second floor living spaces and third floor commercial space

RISD's Fletcher bldg.
212 Union St, Providence
Built ?? // Redeveloped by RISD for graduate student studio space from late 1998 to 2004

General Electric headquarters
off Jefferson Blvd, Cranston
Built 1960s // redeveloped into office space and a new floor added

Heritage Harbor / for. South Street Power Station
350 Eddy Street, Providence
Built 1930’s // Converted to HHM, to be completed 2006?

Hive Archive
Aleppo Street, Olneyville, Providence
Built 1852 // New home for the Hive Archive in 2004

Brown Hillel
Angel and Brown Streets, Providence
Built 1878 // Lifted from its foundation, moved, and a new first floor constructed in 2002-2003

Hope Webbing
Main Street, Pawtucket
Built late 19th century // Being converted to live/work, commercial, residential and light industrial spaces

RI Hospital Trust bldg
15 Westminster Street, Providence
Built 1919 // Converted to RISD library and student dorms, to be completed fall 2005

the Hotel Providence / for, Lederer building
Mathewsonn Street, Providence
Built 1897 // Turned into a 77 room boutique hotel. Ground broke Dec 2003 with completion by June 2004

L. Vaughn Company
1153 Westminster Street, Providence
Built 189? // Not sure what they are doing exactly, but it went from broken down to somewhat fixed up

Lawton Family Storage / Pilgrim Congregational Church
19-21 Harrison Street, Providence
Built 1866 // Might get converted into condominiums... right on Armory Park. Not a bad idea, but the parking situation is less than ideal.

Liberty Elm Diner
777 Elmwood Avenue, Providence
Built 1947 // Recently re-opened as a little diner with fresh local produce.

the Mason building
Veterans Way, Providence
Built 1920s // Vacant for the past 75 years, finally under redevelopment into a hotel

Monohasset Mills
530-532 Kinsley Avenue, Providence
Built 1866 // Under redevelopment since 2002 as legal live/work condo units specifically for artists

the Mowry-Nicholson House
Holden Street, Smith Hill, Providence
Built 1865 // Renovated in 2002 for use as a bed and breakfast

the Palmer building / Cosmopolitan Hotel
Mathewson and Fountain Streets, Providence
Built 1915 // Getting converted into the “Cosmopolitan”, an expensive condo development

Parkin Yarn
Corner of Commerce and Bayley Street, Pawtucket
Built 1888 // Vacant since 1980, and redeveloped as mixed income, live/work studios and apartments

the Pawtucket Armory
172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket
Built 1894 // Vacant since 1994, reopening as a performing arts center and office space for non-profits in 2007

Pearl Street Lofts
304 Pearl Street, West Side, Providence
Built 1850s // In partial use up until 2000, converted to condos and commercial space in 2002-2004

the Peerless building
290 Westminister Street, Providence
Built 1890s // Partially vacant since 1980s, home to Lupos for a dozen years, now 90 luxury apartment units

Peoples Savings Bank
70 Kennedy Plaza, Providence
Built ?? // Vacant since ??, redevelopment started August 2004 as luxury apartments

Providence Bleaching, Dyeing and Calendaring
60 Valley Street, Olneyville
Built 1845-1918 // Purchased in 2003 by Puente for mixed commercial and residential use, to reopen in 2006

National Providence and Worsted Mills
166 Valley Street, Providence
Built 1867 // Converted to Rising Sun Mills, 2003 and open for residential and commercial tenants

Rau Fastner
102 Westfield Street, South Providence
Built ?? // Converted into affordable housing 2003 by the West Elmwood Housing Development Corporation

RISD Center for Integrative Technologies
169 Weybossett Street, Providence
Former Mason building, built ?? // Converted 2002-2004 into Graduate studios

Riverside Lofts / for. Lebanon Mills
10 Front Street, Pawtucket
Built ?? // Converted to residential lofts, 2003-2004

Rolo Building / DM Watkins Co.
274 Pine Street, Providence
Built ca. 1919 // Vacant by its most recent tenant since 1997.
Owned by Johnson and Wales –– we think it wont be long before this property is razed for new J&W facilities

Royal Mills and Ace Dyeing
125 Providence Street, West Warwick
Built 1860 // Conversion into housing started in 2003

Ship Street Lofts / for. J & H Electric
125 Providence Street, West Warwick
Built 1860 // Conversion into housing started in 2003

Sockanosset Boys Training School
Reservoir Avenue, Cranston
Built starting 1881 // Converted to office space with new connecting structures

Splinters Sports Pub
Empire Street, Providence
Occupied for many years by Splinters, maybe best known for the had painted sports icons on the streetfront, the same space is now a new bar for the McFadden's next door

the Grant
250 Main Street, Pawtucket
Former indoor mall will become colloborative office space and cafe space; a place where artists and designers can meet and collaborate or close their doors and have some private space.

the Steelyard
27 Sims Avenue, Providence
Converted into a community learning center in 2001 featuring ceramics and metal arts

the Summerfield building
274 Webossett Street, Providence
Acquired by Johnson and Wales University and rehabilitated for office and classroom space

Two Ton Inc.
49 Montgomery Avenue, Pawtucket
A small converted storefront into an architectural office and cold metal shop

Vinton Street Garage
130 Vinton Street, Providence
Built 19?? // Converted from a garage to office space in mid 2007

West Broadway Neighborhood Association
1560 Westminister Street, Providence
Built 19?? // Converted to offices for the WBNA 2002

the Wilkinson Building / for. Lerner Dept Store
Corner of Eddy and Westminster Streets, Providence
Built ?? // Converted to apartments, 2002-2004 under Cornish Associates' ownership

 
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