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September 13, 2007

Business group opposes Providence waterfront plan

Taking aim at the City Plan Commission’s vision of the Providence waterfront, a group of Providence Port-area businesses, are announcing the formation of the Providence Working Waterfront Alliance.

The new comprehensive plan, which the commission approved on Aug. 23, restricts heavy industrial business south of Thurbers Avenue and uses new zoning regulations to encourage mixed-use development.

In a statement from the new group -- which includes representatives from companies such as J. Goodison Company, Promet Marine Services and Northeast Marine Pilots -- Captain E. Howard McVay, Jr. said although residential development along the port could increase property tax revenues, he cautioned “this gentrification of Providence’s working waterfront is shortsighted.”

The group plans to meet with city officials and the public to share the history of the industrial port and explain why it thinks mixed-use development is a bad economic move.

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 10:20 AM | Permalink

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