PAWTUCKET – The cost of a true conversion of the city’s 1930s City Hall building into a modern office building would likely be between $90 million and $95 million, city
LINCOLN – The former Lincoln Memorial School in the Lonsdale Historic District, most recently used as central administration offices, is set to be converted into 26 affordable housing units, 17
LINCOLN – There’s been a for sale sign up at the former Lincoln Memorial School on Lonsdale Avenue for a few months, and officials now say they are ready to
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5/11/2021
City Hall tower will be replaced in major project
City officials have decided to complete a full removal and replacement of the Pawtucket City Hall tower facade. (Breeze photo by Ethan Shorey)
PAWTUCKET – A top-to-bottom reconstruction of the downtown’s centerpiece architecture is now in the works after officials determined that a facelift for the Pawtucket City Hall tower wouldn’t be enough.
Joe Morais, project leader at the Pawtucket Department of Public Works, wrote in a memo last week that the city has decided on a full removal and replacement of the current tower rather than a short-term maintenance program that was once thought viable.