[Summit] Poll on Shooters site

[Geoff Griffin]

How exactly is "entertainment space/public recreation" different from a
park?

I am concerned that people think they are voting for public tennis courts
when the PBN means civic center, or yacht parking.


Jonathan Howard <jon at ceffect.com> on Friday, March 13, 2009 at 8:47 AM
-0500 wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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?
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>The question:
>What would you like to see at the Shooters waterfront site
>in Providence’s Fox Point?
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>To vote: [ http://www.pbn.com/detail/40233.html?showpoll=1
>]http://www.pbn.com/detail/40233.html?showpoll=1.
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>  To check latest results: [
>http://www.pbn.com/detail.html?sub_id=40233&pollmsg
>]http://www.pbn.com/detail.html?sub_id=40233&pollmsg=  
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>Results as of March 12:
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>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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