{"id":216,"date":"2009-09-03T10:06:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T14:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/03\/a-local-example-of-why-condos-and-industrial-uses-dont-mix\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:33:24","slug":"a-local-example-of-why-condos-and-industrial-uses-dont-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/03\/a-local-example-of-why-condos-and-industrial-uses-dont-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"A local example of why condos and industrial uses don&#8217;t mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc6.com\/news\/rhodeisland\/56741692.html\" target=\"_blank\">This ABC 6 News story<\/a> is a clear illustration of why residential condos\/apartments and industrial uses don&#8217;t mix.\u00a0 For years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capcosteelco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CAPCO Steel<\/a> has been parking their steel beam trailers along Harris Ave in what is a primarily light industrial neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/sv?cbp=12,119.09,,0,5&amp;cbll=41.826168,-71.428390&amp;v=1&amp;panoid=qb0uKWdz0h4V012Bpj5w9A&amp;gl=us&amp;hl=en\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?cbp=12,119.09,,0,5&amp;cbll=41.826168,-71.428390&amp;ll=41.826168,-71.428390&amp;layer=c\" id=\"cbembedlink\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Residents of the street&#8217;s only condo\/apartment development, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the903.com\/\">The 903<\/a>, complained that the trailers were unsightly.  Not surprisingly resident complaints won out over a long established industrial business which has even <a href=\"http:\/\/pbn.com\/detail\/34275.html\" target=\"_blank\">partnered with the city to train steel workers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If condos or hotels are allowed in the middle of Providence&#8217;s industrial working waterfront on Allens Ave, similar complaints are guaranteed. \u00a0 Future residents surely wont want to hear the rumble of fuel oil trucks, see the glare from a welding torch, or smell hot asphalt being made.<\/p>\n<p>Put simply, mixed-use does not mean locating residential\/hotel uses directly next to heavy industrial uses.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a recipe for complaints, and industrial uses almost always end up on the losing end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ABC 6 News story is a clear illustration of why residential condos\/apartments and industrial uses don&#8217;t mix.\u00a0 For years CAPCO Steel has been parking their steel beam trailers along Harris Ave in what is a primarily light industrial neighborhood. View Larger Map Residents of the street&#8217;s only condo\/apartment development, The 903, complained that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}