{"id":228,"date":"2009-10-21T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T20:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/21\/response-to-the-misleading-comments-of-patrick-conley\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:33:24","slug":"response-to-the-misleading-comments-of-patrick-conley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/21\/response-to-the-misleading-comments-of-patrick-conley\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to the misleading comments of Patrick Conley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick T. Conley\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/opinion\/contributors\/content\/CT_conley30_09-30-09_MMFSBDD_v13.3f8e276.html\" target=\"_blank\">Journal, city fumble \u2018wilting waterfront\u2019<\/a>\u201d (Sept. 30) <em>Providence Journal<\/em> letter to the editor contains a number of factually incorrect and misleading statements.<\/p>\n<p>First, no adult entertainment establishment has <em>ever <\/em>been a member of the Providence Working Waterfront Alliance, nor has any such establishment <em>ever <\/em>contributed one cent to our efforts to preserve a vital marine-industrial neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Second, Mr. Conley\u2019s claim that \u201cno new marine industrial business has been created on the waterfront since 1974\u201d is incorrect. \u00a0J. Goodison Company is a full-service marine repair contractor which employs 19 people. \u00a0J. Goodison has partnered with Promet Marine for the past three years, and primarily operates from Promet&#8217;s pier. As a federal HUBZone contractor, J. Goodison has helped attract numerous Coast Guard repair contracts, and has hired and trained many employees from economically depressed areas of Providence.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it is a serious stretch to argue that Promet, a water-dependent marine repair shipyard is somehow not in compliance with the city\u2019s W-3, Port\/Maritime Industrial zoning. To quote from the definition of the W-3 district: \u201cThis zone is intended to promote the Port of Providence and related maritime industrial and commercial uses within the areas of Providence&#8217;s waterfront; to protect the waterfront as a resource for water-dependent industrial uses; and to facilitate the renewed use of a vital waterfront.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Mr. Conley, the Providence Working Waterfront Alliance is committed to protecting and promoting our waterfront as a resource for water-dependent industrial businesses and the good paying blue collar jobs they provide.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Providence Working Waterfront Alliance<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick T. Conley\u2019s \u201cJournal, city fumble \u2018wilting waterfront\u2019\u201d (Sept. 30) Providence Journal letter to the editor contains a number of factually incorrect and misleading statements. First, no adult entertainment establishment has ever been a member of the Providence Working Waterfront Alliance, nor has any such establishment ever contributed one cent to our efforts to preserve [&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-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}