{"id":89,"date":"2007-12-26T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/26\/nytimes-article\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:33:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:33:26","slug":"nytimes-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/26\/nytimes-article\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times article on Providence&#8217;s working waterfront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/26\/business\/26port.html\" target=\"_blank\">business section of today&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em> has an article<\/a> about our fight to preserve the vital regional economic resource that is Providence&#8217;s working waterfront, from glitzy condos that would shut off the true economic potential of the Port of Providence :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> . . . A band of business owners, who feel threatened by the mixed-use vision that Mr. Conley espouses, have come together to fight the developer. Their position is that Providence needs a traditional working waterfront \u2014 not more condominiums . . .<\/p>\n<p>They predict it will only be a matter of time before they are driven out of business on Allens Avenue, a situation they believe will have disastrous economic implications for Providence \u2014 though city officials don\u2019t seem to agree \u2014 and for the entire region .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProvidence is just thinking of Providence,\u201d said David A. Cohen, president of the Promet Marine Services Corporation, a shipyard located on eight acres next to Mr. Conley\u2019s renovated conference center.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that home heating oil shipped into Providence\u2019s deep water port is sent as far away as Worcester and Cape Cod in Massachusetts, Mr. Cohen said the waterfront\u2019s traditional industrial base is more important economically than new commercial and residential uses. \u201cAllens Avenue is important to the whole region,\u201d Mr. Cohen said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The business section of today&#8217;s New York Times has an article about our fight to preserve the vital regional economic resource that is Providence&#8217;s working waterfront, from glitzy condos that would shut off the true economic potential of the Port of Providence : . . . A band of business owners, who feel threatened by [&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-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}