Current Events

I love, love, love the gothic font on that sign for Regal Plating. Very nice example of 1950’s technical lettering.

The building and business are still in use, plating metal products. ThomasNet lists the year that the company was founded as 1948, and their occupation as “Plating Of Costume Jewelry”. A Google search turned up a few records of Hazardous Waste Management violations – one in 2000, and one in 2006.

With the price of real estate in the Jewelry District, and the competition in this industry from overseas, we wonder how long it will be before this property is up for grabs.

UPDATE: This property is up for grabs. The web is a funny thing… the realtor saw this page and sent me the PDF of info for it. Price starts at $3.2 million. Click here for the PDF.

History

I couldn’t find any info in the ProvPlan/PPS site, and the property isn’t listed in the RIHPHC Industrial Buildings Survey of 1981… so I don’t have any history on it. If you know of some, or where I can get some, please send me a note below.

Anecdotes

ABD 01-26-2008 I don’t understand why it’s being marketed for student housing. It must be some know-nothing real estate firm that thinks that’s the way to make a quick buck.

Bob Eggleton My late Dad, as I recall did some business with the people here – I think, a long time ago, around the late 80’s or early 90’s. Plated machine parts if memory serves me. I walked by it a zillion times on my own foot errands in the 80’s/90’s and obnoxious smells, and loud noises were always coming from the various ventilators and open windows exiting the building. It has finally become yet another memory of an old business – of so many now gone from that area – that itself became obsolete and what’s left is done overseas. It’s sort of in that weird Bermuda Triangle of streets that are near the 195 entrance that reflected until very recently one of the last manufacturing areas left in the city.

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