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GRAFTON — The Providence Place senior living community will soon move forward with an expansion approved last year. The original 40-unit structure at 815 Washington St. in Grafton was built in 2009, according to Village Plan Commission documents. According to a Plan Commission report from Village Planner Jessica Wolff last September, the 12-unit addition happening this year was on the original 2009 plan. The development needed to come back to the Plan Commission and Village Board because it was built under planned unit development zoning ; the 2009 zoning did not include the additional rooms. Both of those boards gave the needed approvals last fall. According to the site plan submitted to the village, the addition will be about 25,000 square feet, bringing the entire senior living facility to about 112,000 square feet. The 12 new units, which ...

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...