Allens Avenue & Port Redevelopment Plan<\/em><\/a> commissioned by the Providence Redevelopment Agency (PRA), and recently introduced as an ordinance before the Providence City Council. While this plan was commissioned by the PRA, it was never acted on by the Agency or made available to the public before it was introduced as a Council ordinance.<\/p>\nThe stated purpose of this plan is to declare all of the properties along Allens Avenue, the Port, and Harborside sub-areas as \u201cblighted and substandard,\u201d thus allowing the PRA to use its broad powers of condemnation and eminent domain. This plan would be in effect for 40 years, and at any point during this time period the PRA could begin condemnation \/ eminent domain procedures against any properties within the approximately 590 acre redevelopment plan area.<\/p>\n
This redevelopment plan and the possible use of eminent domain are simply unacceptable. The plan is an affront to basic private property rights and an insult to successful area businesses and institutions that collectively employ thousands of people and are responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in total economic impact. We are not \u201cblighted and substandard,\u201d and we will not accept this designation which is based on a superficial study of the area and contains unsubstantiated findings and baseless conclusions.<\/p>\n
This redevelopment plan also threatens future job growth in the Allens Avenue and port area. Facing the threat of eminent domain for the next 40 years, no area businesses will have the incentive to invest in their properties to expand operations and grow jobs.<\/p>\n
Finally, if the real intent of this ordinance is to only aid the expansion of ProvPort onto adjacent properties, then the redevelopment plan should be rewritten and the map redrawn to narrowly focus on ProvPort and these specific projects. The powers of condemnation and eminent domain should only be used as a last resort and in extremely narrow circumstances. This plan will threaten property owners and business in a 590 acre area for 40 years. There is simply no need for this incredibly overbroad plan if the real intent is to acquire properties within and immediately adjacent to the ProvPort area.<\/p>\n
For these reasons, we again demand to be removed from this extremely overbroad redevelopment plan.<\/p>\n
Sincerely,<\/p>\n
John Everson, President
\nNarragansett Improvement
\n223 Allens Avenue<\/p>\n
John Stiller, Regional Director
\nPSC
\n275 Allens Avenue<\/p>\n
David Broomfield, Owner
\nI. Broomfield & Son, Inc.
\nLehigh Metals Corporation
\n14 Lehigh Street<\/p>\n
Stephen Broomfield, President
\nJ Broomfield & Sons
\n473 Allens Avenue<\/p>\n
David Cohen, President
\nTidewater Terminal Inc.
\nPromet Marine Services Co.
\nTidewater Realty LLC
\n232 – 242 – 284 Allens Avenue<\/p>\n
Burton S. Russell, Vice President, Operations
\nSprague Energy Corporation
\n144 Allens Avenue<\/p>\n
Mark L. Russell, Director of Real Estate
\nCumberland Farms
\n383 Allens Avenue<\/p>\n
Edward Sciaba, General Manager
\nRhode Island Recycled Metals
\n434 Allens Avenue<\/p>\n
Andre A. Langlais, President
\nMulti State Electric Co.
\n36 Oxford Street<\/p>\n
Anthony M. Coletta
\nDads Realty LLC
\n283 Allens Avenue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
November 17, 2009 The Honorable Mayor David N. Cicilline Providence City Hall 25 Dorrance Street Providence, RI 02903 Re: Allens Avenue & Port Redevelopment Plan Dear Mayor Cicilline: We the undersigned property and business owners demand to be immediately removed from the Allens Avenue & Port Redevelopment Plan commissioned by the Providence Redevelopment Agency (PRA), […]<\/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-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","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=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}