oh wow ! that’s ,,, that’s interesting

Was that the guy with the Gyro stand? Those were pretty good gyros.

This thing sucks

Wasn’t the issue here that the city wouldn’t approve it, so the state intervened and gave the approval?

They don’t have financing secured yet I don’t think, and with rates going up and the scale of this project I think the window is closing for this thing to pencil out.

Impressive that they somehow made it worse. Also just heartwarming to know that it looks like this because of cost saving design measures, just what we deserve. So every time you look at it you’re seeing a budget version. Gotta eat humble pie here because now the old version ain’t looking so bad.

As a mostly life long Rhode Islander, I hate to be the one to inform you but Providence doesn’t have a skyline.

They should’ve made it not look like shit instead

I always worry about the Lovecraft Arts and Sciences shop. At times I believe it's been the last shop standing in there. Also LOL at the fucking landlords running this place. I wonder if they are noticing the correlation between rent hikes and a rapidly increasing lack of businesses.

Wow I really understand what they mean by eye sore now. It’ll be so out of place in that section of Prov and will only be the beginning to ruining our skyline.

A few hours isn't going to be a big problem as long as you don't open it

It sounds amazing

what happens when all the lower floor business dies? do they just make first floor condos and raise hoa fees? seems risky to get involved.

That would be a good point, however no one in this entire country walks anymore. Drive down any road and you will see the sidewalks empty. Providence, short of a few select streets, is dead. I regularely run outside on sidewalks with my son, and I feel the machine apocalypse has already happened. No one is outside anymore. You are furthermore under the assumption that a driver does not see pedestrians, nor do they slow down if they feel the need to. You are perhaps under the assumption, that a "speed limit driver" in the right lane of the highway is a better driver simply due to speed, despite the fact that a speeder might move over for a disabled vehicle.

I might make the case that a speed limit driver becomes over confident in their safety and begins checking their phone since they dont need to pay attention to their snail pace.

Actually, the speed limit driver must be unattentive to the road as they are too busy attending to signage rather than getting an instinctive feel for the road. They are more concerned about following arbitrarily picked numbers on white signs than attending to what is in front of them. They stare at the spedometer. I wonder what other random signage they are paying attention to, such as city skylines and other non-important driving details on the road.

You are also arguing that a particular speed is dangerous, when that is not true. RI has massively slower roads than MA. RI has no problem throwing 25 MPH signs on two lane road that should be 45 MPH. Route 1A is a great example of this, the minute you cross into RI the speed limit drops to something unreasonable with speed cameras all over the place. This is particularly frustrating, since speed limits do not scale with the amount of traffic: Roads after 7:00 PM are vastly more empty, and therefore safer to drive on at higher speeds.

So let me ask you this: Given that 1A is roughly the same commecial density in MA as it is in RI, does that mean MA drivers are worse than RI drivers?

Consider 2 streets completely identical in all ways. If the one is MA is 45 MPH, and the one is RI is 25 MPH, are the two drivers equal?

I would actually argue that RI drivers are far worse and incapable than faster drivers, since fast drivers get more experience on the road year over year.

Actually, using my prior argument, fast drivers literally have more time to drive and practice defensive driving because they save time in their lives, making them more experienced because they can literally do more year over year.

Now, for those older folk who think I hate slow drivers, I don't. I have no problem with older slower reaction people driving an inconvenient 35 in a 35 if they can not drive faster. We all will be that age. I do have a problem with people projecting their incapacities on to me, and limiting what I am fully capable of doing.

I am not going to convince you, and it really doesnt matter to me. The signs on the road control how much of your life you live, and you choose not to live it. The speed limit drivers are going to contribute to unnessary traffic by driving the speed limit (which, even in the middle lane causes issues, since all the 70 MPH drivers go into the right lane 80 MPH lane, which causes backups where there otherwise would be none). That ultimately slows down the entire flow of traffic, for the average speeder and safe driver, causing delays for a wide swath of people who want to get home and spend approximately 3 more minutes daily with their children every day. And while those 3 minutes dont sound like alot, that is 13 hours over the year that a father might get to spend tossing their child up into the air when they return home, and yes, yhise 3 minutes are important. The vast majority of people don't actually drive the speed limit, they feel the road, and speed limit drivers are contributing to road danger because they are overly zealous in following signs rather than paying attention to the road.

As the roads become more and more filled and delayed by slow drivers, we can all enjoy the additional destruction of the forest, since our existing capacity will be filled at 60 MPH, where 80 MPH may very well alleviate the traffic issues.

For anyone upvoting me: My own personal protest to speed cameras is avoiding businesses that include driving near speed cameras, and driving down what otherwise would have been quiet side streets. I dont want to deal with staring at my spedometer making sure my needle is exactly at 20, because any less and the driver behind me may get frustrated and cause a road rage incident. I hope others follow my protest, as this needs to start hurting businesses so that the government does something to fix this. I can tell you, some local business have lost thousands in my business because of this.

Enjoy the final point, as I won't be writing back: I have more important things to do with my time, but you may want to reconsider what you do with yours.

Hope people are back up by now 💛

We were down a couple times but were back on by 7 over by the dog park. Fingers cross for all!

It never was and never is getting built.

Is that where Caldor was?

I remember a lot of drives up and down Rt2 and Garden City when I was a kid. Usually CompUSA (Where hobby lobby is now), Lechmere (where Target is now), Tweeter (where Lumber Liquidators is now), and Circuit City (I think now Container Store).

I remember that Seekonk Caldor, I think, was where Target is now …and I feel like there was a Warwick Caldor, but I can’t place where.

Personally I'm pretty disappointed with the new design. What could've been a pretty cool looking building is now gonna be a generic soulless skyscraper towering over the whole city. It's like the developers catfished the city to get it approved.

It's under 40 outside--you could put everything in a cooler and dump it out there.

This isn't at Providence Place, it is the Arcade

Havent been in ri for a while. I was concerned that the arcade might have been torn down. It was a part of my walk around in the city when i wore a younger mans clothes. College hill, Benefit Street, (the band not the asphalt) Eat at Joes, head shops on the "mall" that park with the really cool view of the 2nd largest un supported marble dome structure...

It's a big cooler. You could buy some ice and throw it in there. Whatever you do, keep the doors closed.

Can I cook everything in the morning, or is the damage done.

Caldor to Dream Machine

Awesome, that's very helpful! Thank you