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Interview: Lanre Ajakaiye of 25 Bough Street
The entrepreneur has big plans for 25 Bough Street, a community development and commercial impact project in Olneyville.
December 21, 2020
Photography by Michelle Carpenter
Lanre Ajakaiye drives around the neighborhood where he grew up in the Olneyville section of Providence for a tour that is half nostalgic, half hopeful of its resurgence.
He makes stops at Hartford Park where he spent his early years as a child of Nigerian immigrants chasing Mr. Bill’s Lemonade Truck, then motors toward the building where he went to kindergarten when it was called Nickerson House, then onto Barton Street where he went to St. Mary’s, which is now the Paul Cuffee School. The Providence native graduated from Classical High School and then the University of Rhode Island. The final stop that completes the square of four points is the place where he sees his dreams finally coming to fruition. It’s a blighted building at 25 Bough St ....

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