Feast and Fettle in E. Providence.

Just an idea - could you experiment with takeout from your favorite restaurants to find the best way to freeze and reheat their food? It seems conceivable at least that you could end up with a better ready-made lunch that way than a meal that's built to ship.

Pickerel, I believe.

I have no idea about their employee satisfaction, but if you're using the service charge as an indicator of a good workplace, Den Den Korean Fried Chicken also does it. Might be worth looking into it.

Newport. Take the 14 or 60 bus, get there early. Shit. Show.

I don't work for Gracie's in Providence so I can't say personally, but I have heard they are in line with what you're describing and it's a great upscale restaurant. They also are bucking tipping culture by including a 20% service charge on all bills and distributing that and any other gratuities evenly to their team through wages.

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This makes a lot of sense, thank for sharing your thoughts

Glad you could join the discussion! To be clear, I am not critical at all of the work that you all are doing to study the issue-- or address it, if it's done in an equitable and thoughtful way. Looking forward to hearing more about the research.

The East End could be a great spot to feature. Unbelievably kind staff who appear to genuinely like where they work with an upscale dining room and some wildly talented folks behind the bar mixing drinks.

When I think of "quiet" I think of the absence of noise, whereas "peace" is more a sense of physical/emotional wellbeing. Not all noise is innately harmful, and making the complete absence of noise the goal can limit the work to punitive enforcement vs. understanding how noise affects individuals and communities, and how it can be measured/mitigated/reduced in thoughtful, constructive ways.

Out of curiosity, what is the defined difference between "quiet" and "peace?"

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Not sure if this fits the bill but Bucklin Plaza?

You must include capriccio in Providence

Village Haven & Lucky Dog in forestdale are known as having great ownership. In Cranston Mike's kitchen is under new ownership (RIP Mike) and have a great reputation as well.

La Masseria in EG, but that could have changed

Loop nets a good start. But it tends to be the last resort for lls, due to cost to list. I’d recommend driving around your target area and look for signs, and if both fail reach out to some commercial brokers. It’s the most expensive option but they’ll have properties not listed elsewhere.

I just really love Palo. They do great work there and are unpretentious about it.

There's some cool views from the top of the Arcade Garage

https://www.loopnet.com/ is basically Zillow for commerical property. You can sort by property use, square footage, lease rate, etc

> Also by capping do you mean just putting up sound barriers around the highway or are we talking a sort of fully enclosed system?

I think fully enclosed would be amazing, with greenspace, walkways, bikeways, and I suppose a couple car roads on top. Reconnect the sides of the city, while sequestering the traffic on the highway that's just passing through.

> Shows that road traffic exceeding 60 decibels cause health concerns. Other research papers (idk which ones, google probably has it) give you break downs of how long it takes for hearing damage based on decibel levels.

You are talking about two different things. No one is saying that 60dB highway sound is going to cause hearing loss...the problems there are disturbed sleep and stress-associated things like cardiovascular issues. I'm also not saying that the hypothetical loud vehicle is causing hearing damage either (at least, not to the person in their house). What I am positing is that the sleep- and stress-related issues seem like they would be worse with louder, intermittent noises, but you're saying that it's actually the quieter, constant noises that are worse, which is what I am trying to learn more about. This study you linked still does not support your claim about effects of types of noise. I am beginning to think that maybe you just made it up, or stated your opinion as scientific fact because you believe it to be true, but I would like to re-emphasize that I am trying to learn more. I might be wrong, and would love to have some reliable source that allows me to update my opinion.

One thing I never understood after seeing videos of people building nature bridges for animal crossings is that why not build pedestrian bridges and crossings that can be utilised over the highways?

In someways, it’s one of the things I like about Mass because you have these areas where buildings and other walkable areas are build over the roads and highways, causing them to dip down a little to preserve the walkable areas.

It’s honestly I’d prefer since as a pedestrian, I’m still near, seeing and hearing cars while having my own walkable area. As a driver, I’d love it because it’d keep people away from the cars and can up the speed limit.

Or we could erect sound dampening barriers like they do in CT for long stretches near residential areas.

I’ve only heard sirens for the most part in central EP. If you’re talking like Riverside and Rumford, then I could agree they’re a bit louder.