[Summit] Poll on Shooters site

[Jonathan Howard]

David Riley of Friends of Fox Point urges all Providence residents to  
participate in Providence Business News poll on the future of the  
abandoned former Shooter nightclub at the head of Narragansett Bay.

Background:
As the Interstate 195 relocation project winds down, some of the area  
between the highway and Narragansett Bay in the Fox Point neighborhood  
will stop being a construction staging area. As a result, there has  
been much public discussion about what to do with the land,  
specifically the parcel that the state took over that included the  
former Shooters nightclub.

The state has said that it is required to maximize the value of the  
land as it relinquishes use of the lot, meaning that it might auction  
it to the highest bidder, which could be a residential or commercial  
developer.

But neighborhood advocates would like the head of the Bay to become a  
resource that all people would have access to, and thus would like to  
see it developed as public space, whether for more open space or as an  
outdoor entertainment venue. They are also not enamored of the idea of  
a high-rise condominium blocking the view of the Bay for those homes  
in Fox Point north of the highway.

In a city that sits at the head of Narragansett Bay, yet has much of  
its waterfront occupied by commercial and industrial interests, should  
the state make sure that the reclaimed section of Fox Point is a  
public resource?

The question:
What would you like to see at the Shooters waterfront site in  
Providence’s Fox Point?

To vote: http://www.pbn.com/detail/40233.html?showpoll=1.

   To check latest results: http://www.pbn.com/detail.html?sub_id=40233&pollmsg=

Results as of March 12:
Condominiums
15 votes (2%)

Public recreation/entertainment space
540 votes (69%)

A park
162 votes (21%)

Retail and/or office space
33 votes (4%)

A new nightclub
38 votes (5%)










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