Frank LaTorre, champion of Providenceâs night life and downtown culture, dies at 71
The former executive director of the Providence Downtown Improvement District found new ways to make the city vibrant.
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Frank LaTorre, who was the executive director of the Providence Downtown Improvement District, died this past week at 71.Providence Downtown Improvement District
PROVIDENCE â Even during the cityâs hardest times in the last two decades, Frank LaTorre was an incessant champion of Providenceâs downtown culture. He would often say that the creative capital was in need of a night mayor to cover the cityâs âother 9 to 5,â standing in stark contrast to the more-typical reaction of adding police patrols to address late-night activity.