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Gregory Smith Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The real estate development company Carpionato Group is proposing to build a 459- unit apartment project at the site of the former Providence fruit and produce terminal on Harris Avenue, just west of Providence Place shopping mall . “It’s big,” said Robert E. Azar, deputy director of planning and development. The development would outdo what is perhaps Providence’s most prominent and substantial private apartment project , the Regency Plaza complex downtown , which has 444 units. It was nearly nine years ago that Carpionato Group , of Johnston, disgusted historical preservationists when it razed the terminal, which dated to 1929 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places but had outlived its function. In its heyday, the Art Moderne-style terminal was Rhode Island’s hub for the distribution of fresh fruit and vegetables, with product arriving on farmers’ trucks and by railcar overnight. The demolition le...