Comments for Greater City: Providence

Comment on Streets of Providelphia by JJ

JJ — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:06:58 +0000

Very, very, VERY few shows are shot in the same city they take place in.

Take Fringe for example. The pilot was shot in Toronto. The rest of the season 1 in the NYC area. The show of course, takes place in Boston. Even worse, season 2, which has many episodes set in NYC….is entirely filmed in Toronto.

90% of shows are filmed in Toronto, Vancouver and LA. It’s a good thing that someone is filming in Providence.

Comment on Streets of Providelphia by Marc Doughty

Marc Doughty — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:52:08 +0000

I’m not sure having movies/shows shot actually -is- that good for the economy. Sure, it’s better than nothing, but I’ll bet more business happens on Westminster Street on a daily basis than what a day of movie shooting does.

From a philosophical perspective, I think the idea of ‘building an economy’ with tax credits is a self-defeating proposition… You have to raise money to pay the credits, so instead of fostering the types of businesses that would organically exist in an area, you end up -taxing- the ‘natural’ businesses in order to get a shiny square-peg industry into a round hole economy.

Comment on Streets of Providelphia by Corey

Corey — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:59:06 +0000

It pisses me off that nothing filmed here is actually set here. If you’re going to show up in a city, disrupt everyone and everything to shoot your stupid show, and expect us to give you a tax break, do us a favor and give us the credit for being here. That suck fest of a movie “27 Dresses” blocked off every piece of prime real estate in the city a couple of years ago, only to use scenes shot indoors for a film that was set in New York, because we gave them a tax break. Don’t even get me started on what Disney did to us in 2005, but at least they were nice enough to actually show the city.

Comment on Streets of Providelphia by jencoleslaw

jencoleslaw — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:39:36 +0000

so, they’re filming a show in providence but it is set in philly?

Comment on Rumor: “The Hub” to the Arcade? by Jef Nickerson

Jef Nickerson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:25:55 +0000

The Arcade is not famous like George Clooney or Betsy Ross, no. Famous may be the wrong word, renowned would be better perhaps. Amongst those who make knowing about buildings and architecture and urban form their business, the Arcade is quite well known.

And I have heard of the Country Club Plaza, again not famous perhaps, but as one who likes to know about such things, Country Club Plaza is known to me.

Comment on Oldest indoor shopping mall in America, closed by Jef Nickerson

Jef Nickerson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:22:42 +0000

The Arcade was built in 1828, considerably older than the mall in Paramus. Other malls take credit for starting the suburban mall movement, but the Arcade claims the title of first enclosed shopping mall in the United States.

Comment on Oldest indoor shopping mall in America, closed by John

John — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:41:50 +0000

I would have to question this as being the oldest indoor MALL the Bergan Mall in Paramus NJ was an out door strip mall enclosed in the early 70’s was the start of the indoor mall as we know it today

Comment on RIAC Intermodal Facility naming contest for college and university students by Ben

Ben — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:49:37 +0000

With New England Tech moving its nearby Warwick campus to East Greenwich, there will be a good amount available land to develop near the new Intermodal Station. Warwick and the Airport should start working together now on planning and looking for potential tenants/purchasers that would benefit from and support the success of this new facility.

Comment on Warwick Intermodal Bike and Pedestrian Access by P Boyce

P Boyce — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:29:17 +0000

There is the study for the for the Pawtuxet River Walkway, Pare Engineering did it in 2007.
Here is a link from the RIDOT webpage:
http://www.dot.ri.gov/documents/bikeri/studies/Final_Pawtuxet_Report.pdf
It would connect to the Washington Secondary with a bridge/Tunnel over Route 2, connecting the malls under 295, and ends by Ski Market. There is also an map of future connection following Metro Center and Kilvert St to End at the inter-modal Station.

Comment on REBOOT: East Side Rail Tunnel (Part I) by Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:06:58 +0000

The only problem with this plan is that no one wants to go to Fall River or New Bedford. They are dead end cities between Providence and Spain. And now that the Iway is built, I doubt money will be spent on this tunnel.

I think a better idea is a bridge south of I-195, connecting Conimicut with Bristol. This will avoid having to drive through Providence to get to points east.