What bar was that?

You needed the /s because there are legitimate people out there who think that way.

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Was it a young woman with long brown hair, or a chubby bald guy with a beard by any chance?

I was walking my dogs near there one day and a Rottweiler jumped out of the window of a parked car and ran at me full speed. I had to pull my dog up to me by the leash and hold the rot back with one foot. The owner stumbled out of the car and pulled the dog back, but it was intense. Wonder if it’s the same dog.

There are things in this life that I bet you are an expert on, and I respect that. I’d side with you on whatever they are, but with architectural critiques, no - the distasteful mediocrity of the former fane tower was part of its doom. Imagine if the design had inspired? It would be getting built. It failed. This isn’t Dubai, we don’t go for that kind of soulless shit.

The ppd won’t do a thing. They all dead beats.

You never called animal control before huh. They can’t do anything. It’s sad. They have no power to do a thing to an abused , neglected , vicious animal unless they see it with their own eyes. It’s a real bummer.

What an obscene design. Looked like the lamp in a Christmas story to me. Good riddance with this plan.

I have two small dogs. Larger dogs in my neighborhood are CONSTANTLY getting loose and wandering around. There haven’t been any disasters, and I trust my husband (chief dog walker) to protect them, but it makes me SO ANGRY.

Oh I’m sorry, what’s the bottom limit for the number of people employed for 3-5 years with good salaries where you’d put your taste aside? All construction jobs are temporary, and the only thing that keeps construction workers employed is more construction. So this would have been a massive boost for all those people that Reddit appears to care for.

It would have been such a boost that every union was behind this project.

And your idea of an eye sore is your opinion, I would have liked to have seen this built since it would spur more to be built. This building is a leap and a jump ahead of the art deco of the Superman Building or the International design of One Financial.

And everything is better than the Brown University Brutalist library’s on Waterman.

Construction jobs are temporary, but the eyesore that gets constructed lasts for decades.

I haven't used Nextdoor since I moved from Cumberland, hopefully they let me change my address. I will give it a try, and I will request to join that FB group as well. Thank you!

Can’t believe people here in 2023 still blaming the breed any dog raised wrong can be vicious why doesn’t anyone talk about all the people Retrievers and Labs and Collies kill every year!!!1!1

ETA: Can’t believe this needs a /s

I would report it and at a minimum get this dog and it’s owner on the police’s and animal controls radar. They likely won’t do anything but a dog that does this once will do it again. Maybe once there’s a pattern they will finally assist in keeping the community safe.

I hope you are able to find out what happened to the pup and it's family, and give enough info to animal control that they can have a record of this. Did you try posting on Nextdoor? I see stuff like this there a lot. There's also a FB group "Dogs of Providence."

I'm happy the neighbors came out to help. I can't imagine how terrified that Mom was.

The median income in Providence is less than 30K/yr.

Yes, they do stay empty.

Things like this are not built because units get filled. They get built so they are hard assets on somebody's books. They get built because they're expensive tax write-offs that can be used as a 30-year asset class. They get built due to real estate speculation. None of those reasons provide any real benefit to anybody except the developers and the construction unions.

Considering that public land is being used here, there should be measurable public benefit for any development that occurs on it.

>Cue up responses that your pit Bull is sweet—I’m sure they are! But we can’t know that the other pit Bull next door won’t snap at any minute and kill our kid. Enough already.

I'll take it a step further and say that even the ones that are sweet around their owners, they can be vicious around other people.

You got an upvote from me, lightningbolt1987.

I've had such mixed feelings about this development. What is honestly best case scenario for this piece of land?

Hahahaha

Regardless of the opinion we have about this, I have to say this was very well written. OP had me feeling like I was front row at the dog fights.

Not sure why you're getting down voted. Pitbulls and Rottweilers combined make up over 65% of all fatal dog bites- and they're just two out of hundreds of breeds. It's disproportionate and people really don't have an argument against a genuine statistic like that so they just downvote you to hell.

For real. I grew up with aggressive dogs because my mom didn't want to train them. They weren't house trained and they tried to bite strangers but they were my mom's "precious babies." It's sickening.

I will definitely be giving them a call.

Oh I didn’t realize how little parking was planned. Good to know.