Grew up in Worcester, Ma. Have been living in Rhode Island for about 4 years now. Have always wanted to try a pizza strip. Loved it. Def worth the hype!!

I’ll take buy the water for $1,000.

Lol you’re right!! Brown has Providence by the balls

so disappointing….

Fuckin stupid. An hour from Boston which is doing GREAT and yet the biggest city in the state of RI doesn’t want to build and instead pretend it’s Newport. LOL Hartford 2.0

Brown will probably end up buying it for $1

Well said! Anyone that has actually followed this at all would have seen all the shit the city had to deal with with all the revisions the developer was making and telling them they had to make changes, and even then the city was still giving them the variances they needed. This would have been another half full building that has a ton of turn over.

In the bay. Head out for a swim, find some rocks, dive down and stick your hands into some holes. If something grabs your hand, pull. You got your self a free lobster.

Repeat as many time as necessary.

Here's the thing.

Building luxury apartments can have a pull through effect. In theory. Unfortunately the reality of recent development (since 2005 boom) has not been this. Increase of supply of luxury units has not, in fact, reduced prices for anyone else. The collapse of the national economy did help for a while at least for people that didn't lose their jobs so I guess there is that argument, get enough banks to fund enough stupid overpriced shit and the whole thing will implode again,

There is a reason this argument comes from developers and trade unions and not from housing advocates, and it's not that everyone except some enlightened few are just anti development nimbys.

Regardless one point you fucking people ignore is that this tower required zoning variance and other variations from the CPC. If this tower is so amazing build it where you don't need the variances and you will get a lot more cooperation.

Galilee?

Yes that would be a good start. I am glad that the Fox Point Neighborhood Association and other groups have been paying attention to this and helping to hold the city and developers to account on this.

Having a cohesive plan for the city and housing would be great.

It's almost like we need good civic planning and not just dumping money on something hoping it'll have a ripple effect.

Exactly. There needs to be better options than just building more luxury/high priced housing and hoping it lowers the cost of other housing eventually. There needs to be housing built that addresses the need for lower cost rentals, not saying that luxury and higher priced properties can't exist as well, I don't think anyone is saying that it shouldn't exist, just that it can't be the only thing people build in the city.

And yes the design of this building was awful it would have stuck out like a sore thumb and ruined the appeal of our skyline.

“Luxury Apartments” in a skyscraper isn’t going to help the housing problem. The people affected by the housing problem wouldn’t be able to live here.

Job lot

What an eye sore that would have been.

A) you’re wrong. More housing is the only true affordable housing, period. And B) In case you weren’t aware, developers need profit incentive. NIMBYs doing a great job at scaring big ones away. Good luck finding a charitable development organization. And wait until you see the NIMBY backlash if there ever was a development with all “affordable” housing, which is an arbitrary term that means whatever the idiot uttering the phrase wants it to mean.

Listen I love that people are trying to fix the housing market but we need low-cost housing, not high-cost apartments.

Plus I think the building looks ugly as shit

Yes!!!

But luxury dumb shit like this is very inefficient at accomplishing this goal. This is a vanity project that accomplishes nothing but it's always the same. Fucking luxury housing is the trickle down economics of real estate development.

Love all the people that don't live in the city coming here to call those of us that do live here NIMBYs because we don't want another Ill conceived piece of real estate built in the city that will sit half empty for years til they come begging for a bail out then it becomes dorms like the buildings they put in downtown near waterplace park.

Address some of the existing buildings that are sitting empty before adding yet another that will be neglected.

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Nobody said that. Just because something is in your backyard doesn’t make it good. There are a lot of other reasons why this project sucked.

False equivalence. What history would Fane Tower have eroded? Route 195??

You need to take a basic economics course that covers principles of supply and demand. This is attitude is straight NIMBY!