RI Town Seeks To Redevelop Entire Village

18 December 2002 - 1:00pm

Aging Providence suburb plans to completely rebuild one of its small mill villages using special tax incentives and a development partnership.

The West Warwick Town Council is poised to consider enlisting Universal Properties Group to develop a large swath of the town's Arctic business section, a project that could take more than a decade and cost, by the developer's own account, at least $100 million.

Source: The Providence Journal, December 13, 2002
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