Camden Avenue Park

06/06/2015

From the SHCDC: We applied for the Chase Mission Main Street Grant supporting and helping small businesses take the next BIG step!! In order to move to the next round, we need to receive more than 250 votes via Facebook by June 19th.

CLICK HERE: https://www.missionmainstreetgrants.com/b/75153

And please SHARE!

Chase's $2M Mission Main Street Grants program for Small Business is in full swing! Apply or vote today! Learn more here: www.missionmainstreetgrants.com

06/04/2015

Own a restaurant/catering service or know anybody that does? Here's an amazing opportunity to be part of the Greater Kennedy Plaza revitalization! Yay mobile food in public places!

Please share!

"This year, the Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy (DPPC) is exploring ways to activate new spaces downtown and is releasing a Request for Proposals for new food service at Soldiers and Sailors Plaza in Kennedy Plaza. Businesses with a clear vision and relevant experience incorporating a food service operation into revitalization and placemaking efforts are invited to apply by June 15, 2015."

This year, the Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy (DPPC) is exploring ways to activate new spaces downtown and is releasing a Request for Proposals for new food service at Soldiers and Sailors P...

05/28/2015

Which one are you?

Are you spontaneous, a strategist, or a creature of habit?

05/24/2015

Here’s a great example of how excess street space can be repurposed to beautify a neighborhood, improve safety, and bring people together. Branden Klayko at Broken Sidewalk shares this story out of Louisville, where a public utility helped a neighborhood fix a problematic intersection by building a…

05/23/2015

Happy sunny, sunny Saturday!

From the U.K. to Kenya to the West Bank, photographer James Mollison exposes not only inequalities among rich and poor countries, but also the intimate moments that unfold during recess.

05/13/2015

This Friday, bike yourself to work to celebrate this important and fun part of National Bike Month! What a great excuse to save money, get exercise, help the environment, enjoy the outdoors, and be a proud part of something wonderful.

With spring in the air, the City of Providence and the RI Bicycle Coalition invite you to celebrate Bike to Work Day as part of National Bike Month.

05/11/2015

"If parks are truly our last public spaces, we have the obligation to maximize their potential and implement programs that make them accessible and functional for all who dwell in the city."

Public space is precious. Its worth can be measured by the dollar value of its acres, the composition of its soil or by its proximity to human communities. Our planet has been divided and subdivided, incorporated and extracted. Public space is precious because it is our last hope in the defense of e…

05/08/2015

HEY YOU! If you've got some time tomorrow morning at 10 am, join us and Elmhurst Clean & Green as we begin mulching some of the trees along Smith Street! We'll be meeting near the Aldi parking lot (just look for the crowd). If you have any simple gardening tools, please bring them. See you there!

05/07/2015

For anyone interested, Catherine, our wonderful resident farmer, will be hanging around the garden tomorrow around 2 pm to answer questions, chat, and tend to the many growing beauties. Come say hello!

04/22/2015

04/22/2015

Thanks to The Compost Plant for the huge delivery of beautiful compost for our garden -- can't wait to use it on Saturday!