Newport's Ocean's Way Condos (Providence: apartment complex, construction, live)
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Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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I'm not familiar with that place, but that's a damn nice housing project compared to where I've lived! You should try seeing what we had in Chicago!
All this tells me is that RI projects are really fancy. I have no idea what danger has to do with the quality of the housing stock. All I've learned from my time in Providence is that there really aren't any dangerous areas. I walk all over the South side to visit friends frequently, it's a fine urban area.
Simply put, they look like housing projects. I wouldn't be surprised if they originally were.
They were originally Navy Housing. Definitely not luxury housing, just standard apartments.
See the photo below. I bet you consider those to be projects as well. These are condos right up the street on Bellevue avenue.
If the projects in Providence are your yardstick, then you have a skewed view of projects. Maybe check out some real projects in places like New York, Chicago or even Boston.
My initial comment in this thread was "I always thought those were housing projects." Two members (timberline742 and New Englander) apparently disagreed while saying "they don't look anything like them to me" and "I am not sure what may have caused you to have that impression."
Puzzled by those responses, I posted images of the Ocean's Way condos in Newport along with images of the Chad Brown housing projects in Providence. The images clearly show that they look remarkably similar. No reasonable person would dispute that.
I guess the thread went a bit off topic at that point. Now we seem to be discussing which cities have the worst housing projects, whether or not Providence has dangerous areas, and who knows what else.
All I've learned from my time in Providence is that there really aren't any dangerous areas. I walk all over the South side to visit friends frequently
Out of curiosity, where in South Providence are you walking?
My initial comment in this thread was "I always thought those were housing projects." Two members (timberline742 and New Englander) apparently disagreed while saying "they don't look anything like them to me" and "I am not sure what may have caused you to have that impression."
Puzzled by those responses, I posted images of the Ocean's Way condos in Newport along with images of the Chad Brown housing projects in Providence. The images clearly show that they look remarkably similar. No reasonable person would dispute that.
I guess the thread went a bit off topic at that point. Now we seem to be discussing which cities have the worst housing projects, whether or not Providence has dangerous areas, and who knows what else.
I'm confused too.
I believe the only similarities between the housing projects in Providence and Oceans Way is that they are garden style brick apartments. If that is the yardstick (in your view) to classify an entire housing style as the"projects" then it is your limited worldview not ours. This brick garden style apartments exist from Boston to New York and beyond, if projects in Providence seem to replicate that style does not make the the brick garden style as the projects simply because it reminded you as such.
Furthermore your speculation that Oceans Way may have been projects in the past, was similarly off the mark.
In sum, you can feel free to classify them as projects, however I take issue with the disinformation that you are spreading in a public forum. Close to the beach, Thames St, and the Mansions on Bellevue - Ocean's Way is well located and offers a housing option at a reasonable price for Newport.
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