Mare has an older crowd. You’ll realize that there’s a plastic surgery market in PVD.

Mare is “fancier” but neither has amazing food (typical for a venue that attracts for the ambience).

‘Twas a joke !

It’s people from Warwick coming to do Xmas shopping at Providence Place. Pvd is a dangerous place after all.

It’s not typical for apartments to go from 0-full in a very short period - people are in 12+ month leases elsewhere. Also, they have lease turnover constantly. It’s not to say 10 open units have been sitting there empty since it opened. It could be 10 units that are coming up on an open lease but aren’t open right now.

Plus, you can buy condos for the same price as a mortgage - hence the high demand in those other buildings.

Like it or not, there’s demand.

I think the term “crowds” on Blackstone is a bit extreme haha

Housing prices in a city or state will not change based on a small number of projects (most of what’s been built recently downtown are 4-5 story buildings too, small).

The housing availability downtown was already bad, so they are simply fill in already existing pent up demand (which is why these newer buildings are filling quickly).

This is a much larger project in terms of volume, but the years and years of resistance isn’t helping. This project won’t be done for a while, so not gonna affect any prices now.

Also, the coined “luxury high end” is simply not true - it’s all marketed that way. As someone who’s lived in major cities, they aren’t that fancy.

They are, however, apartments in a desirable downtown area in a city. Those will never be “cheap”. People on here seem to think living in the heart of downtown in a new apartment should cost $1200/month. That’s not really how real estate works.

PVD needs bigger residential projects in other areas of the city.

You clearly don’t know the market. Waterplace and the Omni residences have incredible demand. The Nightingale opened less than 2 years ago and is one of the more expensive apt buildings (one bedrooms are min $2300). It has 9-10 open units in a 150 unit building.

For someone who seems to be so snarky about living downtown, not sure how this negatively affects you so much.

Oh, pretty sure rivers are water.

Would you rather there be no housing built? Or a 3 story apartment building? That’ll show em.

There’s a shortage of inventory across the entire housing sector. Which is why most of those buildings downtown are full. There’s not enough inventory.

It’s waterfront and downtown - nowhere in the world is that where cheap apartments get built.

And yet it doesn’t make anything worse! You left that part out.

How many other apartment buildings with this many units have been built in PVD?

Ding ding ding the foot print isn’t big. Also, it was always meant for development.

And there isn’t demand according to who?

The condos that go up for sale in the Omni and Waterplace are sold almost immediately. The apartments built downtown fill up rather quickly.

Also, companies don’t often relocate places where there is a lack of housing stock. Considering the Jewelry District is hoping to attract research jobs, a big ole apt building is actually a great thing.

I love that suddenly they are “inexperienced”. Seems like grasping at straws to hate a project.

It was a plot of land for the 195 relocation.

It was never designated to be a park.

I mean look at the comments on here. People get riled up about anything new.

Heaven forbid some building that looks kinda like a building from a comic book but has no relationship to said comic book is not the focal point of the PVD skyline. Definitely a reason not to build!

Yeah, it’s stupid to build a residential building that will be full of people that will support the local businesses in an up and coming area….

^^ these comments are why PVD is lagging behind other mid size cities in development.

“This project makes no sense” is crazy. There’s extreme housing demand at all price points!

Build the damn thing already, it will not have any adverse impact on you.

Pull up Google maps and try: “garden center” “Christmas tree farm” “Home Depot” “Lowes” “Whole Foods” “Stop N Shop”

Don’t use ask Jeeves.

No offense but cat calling a random stranger walking by is not the smartest move. And can be perceived as sexual harassment.

The most dangerous part is the wind. Literally it’s always windy there.

Basically the roughest areas in Rhode Island and interactions with gays would be like encountering Roland Schitt.

Farmers Daughter is well priced for the quality/size of plants they have - but it’s more expensive. For a Xmas tree for under 30 days, that’s probably not as big of a deal - you can probably find cheaper at some of the other garden centers in S County (there’s the rose place just north of FD and a garden center just south of FD for example).

They have the biggest variety!

RI beaches in particular don’t have dangerous sharks around in general. Thresher sharks are the most common…they are super shy and literally use their tail to hunt. Not their jaws. Great whites come off block island but not really in beach season. RI water is too warm during summer.

They don’t do design

The RISD submission for the regular plate was…underwhelming…If I recall correctly