$48-million medical services, office complex proposed in Warwick
By Linda BorgJournal Staff Writer WARWICK, R.I. — A $48-million office and medical services complex is planned for the property that is home to the Crowne Plaza complex, the developers said Tuesday. The project, by Warwick Hotel Associates, includes a 100-room addition to the Plaza and three office buildings, including a 35,000-square-foot medical facility that state […]
Retail empire emerges: RI developer adding more stores, jobs in South Attleboro
BY GEORGE W. RHODES SUN CHRONICLE STAFF ATTLEBORO – A barren, dusty strip on the east side of Route 1, running from Newport Avenue to May Street, is expected to be teeming with economic activity in a year or so – even more than first thought. An offshoot of Rhode Island-based Carpionato Properties has added a […]
Neighborhood of the Week | Sockanosset: Retail reinvention for state complex
CRANSTON — Cranston’s largest new development, the $95-million Chapel View retail/office/condo complex, sits next to the aging brick and stone buildings at the state government’s sprawling office complex and correctional facility site, the John O. Pastore Center, formerly known as the Howard Reservation. Carpionato Properties, of Johnston, the developer, is nearing completion on the project, […]
Carpionato Group has submitted proposal to 195 commission
BY KATE BRAMSON PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Carpionato Group, a commercial real estate development firm in Johnston, has submitted a proposal to the Route 195 Redevelopment District Commission to develop former highway land east of the Providence River, spokesman Gregg Perry told The Providence Journal Tuesday. The Carpionato Group, led by President and CEO Alfred […]
Providence Reclaims a ‘Link’ to Its Past – Relocation of Highway Strip Opens Path to Development
Providence relocated a one-mile strip of I-195 because of concerns about congestion and traffic safety.Photo illustration by The Wall Street Journal; The LINK (photo) During the initial construction of the nation’s interstate highway system six decades ago, Providence, R.I., bulldozed properties and divided neighborhoods to make way for a route through its downtown. Now planners […]
Chapel View project nears completion
CRANSTON – The Chapel View project in Cranston neared completion Tuesday when last piece of steel for 4000 Chapel View Blvd., the final piece of the development project, was erected in a ceremony. The three-story structure is slated to be finished this winter. It will include two floors for retail use, including two restaurants, and […]
Stop & Shop opens 91st gas station
Stop & Shop opens 91st gas station Pete Fontaine for Johnston Sun Rise Stop & Shop opened their 91st fueling station in Johnston yesterday morning at 11 Commerce Way off Atwood Avenue. “We’re just thrilled to be here in Johnston,” said Paula Besso, Stop & Shop’s New England Division District Director. The new fueling station is […]
One vision for new city
One vision for new city Johnston developer proposes commercial/residential hub including Ponte Vecchio-inspired bridge By PAUL GRIMALDI JOURNAL STAFF WRITER COURTESY OF THE CARPIONATO GROUP A rendering by Carpionato Group, looking south, shows a $254-million proposal on the edge of the Fox Point neighborhood of Providence. Carpionato Group envisions a series of buildings and outdoor spaces […]
A Reform School, Reborn
By Lawrence Frank for The New York Times CRANSTON, R.I. — This suburb of Providence has not been spared the economic decline that has swept the rest of Rhode Island, where the unemployment rate, 10.5 percent, is one of the highest in the country. In this city of 80,000 people, home foreclosures have risen, and […]
Old R.I. Reform School to be Lifestyle Center
CRANSTON — The American consumer is coming home to roost — and for many of them, that means nesting right above Talbot’s, Ann Taylor or even a Bombay shop. The vast majority of the shopping centers under development across the country now include apartments, condominiums or houses that will mix residential units with retail space […]
Inn at Crossings Wins Interior Design Award
The Holiday Inn at the Crossings in Warwick has been named the winner of the Holiday Inns, Inc., outstanding New Development Award For 1988. The New Development Award, given annually for excellence in architectural and interior design, was presented to Dennis DeSilva the hotel’s general manager during a ceremony at the Oct. 24-28 Holiday Inn […]
Chapel View Still Rising
By Elizabeth Abbott, The New York Times Chapel View, the mixed-use development in Cranston, is expected to be completed this fall. The building at the right was the chapel at the old Sockanosset Training School for Boys; it is being transformed into a restaurant. The Providence Journal / Kris Craig CRANSTON — This city has […]
An Established, Mature Hideaway in Bloom
By Christine Dunn, Journal Staff Writer After a mansion owned by John M. Dean, a Cranston furniture retailer and longtime city councilor, was destroyed by fire in 1933, his estate, which was known for its extensive gardens and apple orchards, was subdivided and sold as house lots. Development there boomed in the years following World […]
Chapel View Development Coming Into Focus
By Katherine Imbrie, Journal Staff Writer If you haven’t been to Cranston recently, you might want to take a look at the evolving Chapel View development at the intersection of Route 2 and Sockanosset Cross Road. For the past few years, the hilltop site, just south of the Garden City Shopping Center and the flashy […]
Shopping For a New Look
By Paul Grimaldi, Journal Staff Writer After decades of dominating the retailing landscape, the enclosed mall is no longer king of the hill. Only one enclosed mall opened in the entire country in 2006. Not one will open this year — the first year that’s happened since the original mall opened more than 50 years […]
A New View in Cranston
By Benjamin N. Gedan, Journal Staff Writer A decade after it unveiled the $75-million project, Carpionato Properties is racing to complete Chapel View, an ambitious collection of housing, retail, restaurant and office space that is reshaping the Cranston skyline. Several buildings have already been constructed or rehabilitated on the property, adjacent to the Garden City […]
In Cranston, Assisted Living on a Grand Scale
By Barbara Polichetti, Journal Staff Writer Decades of carved initials scar the trunk of the aged European beech that is the centerpiece of Carpionato Properties’ Chapel View complex, in Cranston. It’s estimated the tree started growing in the mid-1800s. The Providence Journal / Kathy Borchers CRANSTON Say, “Meet me at the tree,” to executives at […]
Upscale R.I. Development Takes Shape
By Richard C. Lewis, Globe Correspondent Former Cranston reform school gets a new lease on life as $80m Chapel View mixed-use project CRANSTON, R.I. — For more than a century, rough-and-tumble boys in trouble with the law were sent to a hilltop location in this city outside Providence. The youths were cloistered in a walled […]
Retailers Drive Boom in Open-Air Shopping Centers
By Dave Cranshaw, Staff Writer The first indoor shopping mall in the nation, The Arcade, was opened in Providence in 1828. Since then, shopping centers have sprouted around the state to the tune of 234 such establishments, according to the 2004 National Research Bureau Shopping Center Census. The new trend, however, is shying away from […]
Mixed-use Projects Popping up in R.I.
By Justin Sayles, Staff Writer More than 100 years ago, the Rhode Island Training School for Boys in Cranston served as a village of its own, one complete with cottages, carpentry shops and a chapel. But today, with the site’s current owner bringing in retail and high-end condominiums, the area at the intersection of Sockanosset […]
Lowe’s to Occupy Former Apex Site in Warwick
By PBN Staff A representative for Johnston-based developer Carpionato Properties said last week that a Lowe’s home improvement store is expected to open in the summer of 2006 at the former home of Apex in Warwick. The property, located on Route 5 near the intersection with Route 113, will house the 140,000-square-foot store in addition […]
Downtown’s Hotel Hub: Is Market Too Saturated?
By Ryan McBride, Staff Writer Sporadic is the word that perhaps best describes the history of hotel construction in Providence, where only seven have been built in the past 100 years. Developers now, however, are betting that the city’s emergence as a hub of higher learning and the arts will attract enough visitors to support […]
Supply’s Tight, Demand’s High, Room Rates Rise
By Marion Davis, Staff Writer R.I. hotels enjoy a hot market; some price parity does exist In mid-winter, you can get a room at the Hotel Viking in Newport for as little as $99. But the bargains don’t last long: By April, a Saturday night in a standard room will cost you $179, and if […]
Open-air Retail Markets Outstrip Mall Mentality
By Bridget Botelho, Staff Writer Strips of shopping centers and open-air marketplaces, like the newly developed Oak Harbour Village in Exeter, appear to be the retail experience of choice for developers. “Each decade has its own development trend. In the ’70s and ’80s it was enclosed malls. In the 1990s it was power centers – […]