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The East Side Mini Mart and other businesses will be torn down to make way for the new dorms. Photo: GoLocal
The owner of a mini-mart in a strip mall slated to be torn down to make way for new dormitories at Brown University says he was assured by school officials he would be able to move his store into retail space in the new development.
Now, he says Brown tells him he cannot move his business into the new building.
“For years they said there will be new construction. They said don’t worry, that we could come back,” said David Faria, who owns the East Side Mini-Mart on Brook Street, which will be demolished this fall for the student housing. GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
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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.