Our Work

We envision Providence as an equitably prosperous capital city renowned worldwide for its welcoming and inclusive spirit and its vibrant cultural life. Economically, environmentally, and socially resilient, Providence preserves the best of its heritage as it adapts to build a sustainable future.

This is how we imagine our future. 

People

Our on-going work promotes an engaged civic and cultural life for citizens and visitors.

  • A welcoming environment for all individuals, businesses, and institutions regardless of their color, religion, sexual orientation, or other characteristics for which these or any other classes may have been traditionally discriminated against.

  • Sustainable, clean, safe, beautiful, and well-used parks and public spaces

  • Reopening convenings, information sharing, visioning, and planning

  • Downtown Parks Network

  • Development of diversity and inclusion plan

Place

We enhance built and natural infrastructure, promoting a healthy environment, and preserving a sense of place

  • Public space supports COVID economic recovery and long-term development

  • Transportation alternatives that connect downtown to neighborhoods, and major regional centers

  • Preserve infrastructure that supports density 

  • Healthy natural environment

  • Sustainable design

  • Resilience to extreme weather and climate disruptions

  • Creation, maintenance, and sustainability of downtown parks network

  • Explore transfer of parks maintenance and programming to Downtown Improvement District

  • Support development of modern, efficient downtown transit hubs

  • Providence Resilience Partnership

  • Boston-Providence-NYC rail link

  • Phase 2 dredging

Prosperity

We also promote commercial, residential, and cultural vitality and sustainability

  • Attract recovery resources to benefit downtown

  • Retain and attract business activity and commercial tenants

  • More investment in downtown

  • Values-aligned development

  • Economic activity that fortifies the city’s tax base

  • City’s long-term fiscal health

  • Advocacy for federal and state resources

  • Advocacy for competitive tax policy and tax stabilization

  • Advocacy for creative use of public spaces to provide opportunities for healthy outdoor activity, attract people downtown and support commercial activity and development

  • Reuse 111 Westminster Street