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Lessons from the Fane ouster
Lower portions of Hope Point Tower, which would have risen 600 feet in a 100-foot zone. (WPRI) The so-called Hope Point Tower threat is gone, done in by inflationary costs and a dodgy market. Lessons from this interlude abound, chiefly that neighborhood opposition to poorly conceived proposals works. Jason Fane’s proposal for a 550-foot tower in a 100-foot height-restricted zone should not have…
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Fane tower bites the dust!
The latest design revision of the Fane tower, now canceled. (GoLocalProv.com) The Fane tower is dead. This news came to me just a minute ago, and I have interrupted my attention to a Zoom forum of the Classical Planning Institute in order to bring the news to you. In fact, there is not much detail to the report from GoLocalProv.com, written by its Business Team, but here it is: Developer Jason…
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Just as bad but not as silly
Just as bad but not as silly
Former design of Hope Point (Fane) tower, left. New design of toweer, right. (Fane) Developer Jason Fane has cut costs by removing the pizzazz from his proposed tower design. Without the sinuous curves, it looks less ridiculous but would not fit into the Jewelry District any better, if built, than before its redesign – its third redesign. It has progressed from three bland towers in 2016 to one…
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The Fane tower: It's baaack!
The Fane tower: It’s baaack!
Forty-six-story Fane tower, first proposed in 2016, moves forward after court ruling. (WPRI.com) The Rhode Island Supreme Court has ruled that the Fane tower – a proposed 500-foot, 46-story luxury highrise in the Jewelry District of Providence – can go forward toward construction. The tower’s proposed height of five times the limit in the comprehensive plan is not inconsistent with the…
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Patinkin errs on Corso tower
Patinkin errs on Corso tower
Proposed 12-story tower in the Jewelry District of Providence. (Pebb Capital)
Mark Patinkin, a columnist for the Providence Journal, wondered in Friday’s paper “Is Providence turning into the city of ‘no’?” He rushes to the defense of a newly proposed building in the Jewelry District that is opposed by the Jewelry District Association and others. Mark, who is famous for his affection for Rhode…
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New bridge in Providence
New bridge in Providence
The new pedestrian bridge over the Providence River opened Friday. (Photos by author)
The new pedestrian and bicycle bridge in Providence has nudged me out of my lane. Its design is modernist. I like it. This does not compute.
Pont des Arts, in Paris. (Wikipedia)
I’d still prefer a traditional bridge, such as the one inspired by the Pont des Arts in Paris proposed, not long before his death, by…
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Fane theater of the absurd
Fane theater of the absurd
New design of garage upholding Fane tower, unveiled at meeting. (Providence Business News)
Monday afternoon’s meeting of the Downtown Design Review Committee was the city’s first official look, in a public setting, at the design of Jason Fane’s proposed luxury condo tower. The meeting was pure theater of the absurd. It was as if the committee members and the Fane team were on different planets.
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Preservation bombshell
The proposed Fane tower, left; the Turk’s Head Building (1913), right.
In a very interesting article in the February issue of East Side Monthly (not yet up on its website) about Providence Preservation Society director Brent Runyon, titled “The Preserver,” staff writer Robert Isenberg elicits from the great director this description of PPS:
Typically, PPS has always embraced architecture of its…
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