{"id":53,"date":"2007-10-17T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T00:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2007\/10\/17\/providence-phoenix-clash-on-the-providence-waterfront\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:33:27","slug":"providence-phoenix-clash-on-the-providence-waterfront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2007\/10\/17\/providence-phoenix-clash-on-the-providence-waterfront\/","title":{"rendered":"Providence Phoenix: Clash on the Providence waterfront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/thephoenix.com\/article_ektid49560.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Providence Phoenix<\/em> has a lengthy article<\/a> by reporter and local blogger Ian Donnis about the battle over the future of the city&#8217;s waterfront:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A specter is haunting the Providence waterfront \u2014 the prospect of change.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the upper mouth of Narragansett Bay from a high point on George M. Cohan Boulevard, and the area looks much as it has for years: sun-dappled days offer glistening water in proximity to the ship repair work, numerous fuel storage tanks, and other gritty industrial elements that line much of the corridor along Allens Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>If this picture doesn\u2019t square with the kind of pleasant recreation and other public uses sometimes associated with waterfront property, it nonetheless represents a genuine economic generator and a source of good-paying jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Yet various factors \u2014 particularly the ongoing relocation of Interstate 195 and the sparse amount of developable land in Providence \u2014 are combining to make the city\u2019s waterfront a high-stakes battleground. And the outcome of these skirmishes will have statewide repercussions for years to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s edition of the Providence Phoenix has a lengthy article by reporter and local blogger Ian Donnis about the battle over the future of the city&#8217;s waterfront: A specter is haunting the Providence waterfront \u2014 the prospect of change. Take a look at the upper mouth of Narragansett Bay from a high point on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}