Over the last 10 or so years, one developer tells us, the demand for large spaces in the city's 70 or so mill buildings has greatly diminished. Their usual design is to have numerous steel pole supports throughout an otherwise open space. That's inconvenient for warehouse storage but is not a problem for offices, shops, restaurants, or studios. All of those occupy one prominent example of the city's change: Riverfront Lofts, a converted mill that was once "a prominent eyesore" in the words of a realtor, right behind city hall. Once the Hope Webbing Co., now it's the Hope Artiste Village.
Pawtucket Rising is unembellished, straightforward information, some of which could be helpful to other once-industrial cities looking for development on the cheap. Nevertheless, we do see Pawtucket put its money where its Chamber of Commerce pitch is, allocating $25,000 in its budget to help with operating costs of such local artistic treasures as the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre and Mixed Magic Theatre. Touché, Providence.
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