I'm out all the time, I walk and bike all over providence, esp the west end and downtown. It's not ghetto. The surrounding suburbs are suburb-y just like everywhere else but Providence proper is actually very pretty. It's architecturally unique, the bike paths that run through the city and outside the city are beautiful, the bay is beautiful, there are lots of murals downtown, lots of greenery. The river is really nice during the summer, especially when there are food trucks out and food festivals. Atwells is nice also during the summer when they block off the streets and have music playing outside. It just sounds like you have only driven around and need to get out of your car more often.

I've lived a lot of places. The absolute worst parts of Providence are urban heaven compared with, say, East Colfax in Denver or south Fort Worth (both places I've briefly lived). Providence is a really nice city, but people from here often don't realize that for whatever reasons.

Seriously? Your answer is to put more parking garages and car spaces in downtown? Make it even less walkable and more dangerous for pedestrians?

That worked out really well for downtown Houston

Fucking amen. I looked up the rent for the restaurant space (that was just rented) that sat empty at 100 westminster for the last almost 2 years and it was around $5k a month. Insanity.

Warwick is just a series of 4 lane stroads lined with box stores. It looks like every other boring suburb of every city in the entire county.

I could totally see that! Love Deafheaven

Salaries aren't considered profit.