New site map SOURCE: Brown University
Brown University has revised its plans for a new two-building residence hall near the southern end of its College Hill campus after criticism by neighbors. The newly revamped project will shift from a 400 student residential project down to 350.
Beyond the issue of impacted empty lots on Power Street, the meeting was essentially a gripe session about Brown's imperiousness and lack of transparency.
Complaints centered mostly on the questions of scale, and the inappropriateness of such a massive block (five stories and 80,000 square feet) in an older streetscape. Councilman John Goncalves called the dorms "not aesthetically or functionally in tune with the neighborhood." Local resident Lily Bogosian bemoaned that the new buildings will "be a dark shadow in our lives."