Community discussion leading to waterfront change

David N. Cicilline, Originally posted Jun 30, 2008 Providence Business News   Opinion From June 10 to 13, the city held the Providence Waterfront Charrette to discuss how we can modify the Comprehensive Plan to maximize the potential of this incredible resource for the benefit of the region’s economy and quality of life. Full article

Housing on city waterfront rejected at charette

01:00 AM EDT on Friday, June 13, 2008

By Daniel Barbarisi

Journal Staff Writer, projo.com

PROVIDENCE — The four-day symposium to debate the future of the Providence waterfront ended last night with one clear feeling voiced by most of the 200 participants: residences do not belong along the waterfront.

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Cape Verdeans enter fray over waterfront plan

01:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, June 11, 2008

By Daniel Barbarisi

Journal Staff Writer, projo.com 

PROVIDENCE — As the city explores the future of the city’s waterfront this week, a surprising player has emerged from obscurity to enter the discussions: the long-gone Cape Verdean population of Fox Point.

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Imaging Fox Point Under Way

Now that things are quieting down on campus, I have begun to build the Imaging Fox Point work from last summer.

Last summer my colleague Claire Andrade-Watkins and I produced groundwork in Providence, Rhode Island with the Cape Verdean community of Fox Point. We were following up on her internationally acclaimed documentary film “Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?: A Cape Verdean American Story,” which tells the tragic and scandalous story of the displacement of this vibrant community of immigrants by urban renewal. 

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