East Providence Waterfront Commission

	Welcome to the East Providence Waterfront District website. The Waterfront Commission has been charged with facilitating the transformation of the East Providence waterfront into a model of urban revitalization. Its work will help shape the East Providence waterfront for the next one hundred years.

	Tockwotton has topping out ceremony The Tockwotton home, currently under construction on Waterfront Drive adjacent to Bold Point Park, held a "topping out" ceremony on January 18 to celebrate the placement of the structure's last steel beam. Gov. Lincoln Chaffee, Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts and Mayor Bruce Rogers were among the special guests, which also included the opportunity to sign the beam before it was raised into place. Tockwotton on the Waterfront was designed by DiMella Shaffer Associates of Boston and will house 156 units, with an assisted living component and a separate component for residents with Alzheimer’s or impaired memory problems, and a skilled nursing care unit.. The building is on track to be completed in December of 2012. For more information on the untis and application process, please see the Tockwotton Home webpage.

	Construction updates * A few blocks north of Tockwotton, the extension of Waterfront Drive north from Warren Ave. to Dexter Rd. is under construction and one month ahead of schedule. * The Squantum Woods stormwater management Phase 1 construction is completed and Phase 2 is underway, thanks to favorable weather and the folks at Village on the Waterfront. The park will re-open after Phase 2 in completed in 2012. * Baer Supply Co. has nearly completed a 75,000 sf addition to their 2-year old building on New Rd. and Pawtucket Ave in the Northern part of the District. * The Village on the Waterfront project, located on the Chevron property on the Parkway, has received its Coastal Resource permit and is currently undergoing removal of the many pre-existing walls and regrading.