Taking the station
“The Providence Redevelopment Agency is considering the use of the city’s power of eminent domain to “take” the South Street Power Station for a project that would create a state nursing school.
Such takings, depriving citizens of property rights, are always controversial. But sometimes they are necessary.
The nursing school, a joint venture of the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College, would be a desirable facility because of its location so near Rhode Island Hospital. But the project would involve private entities, possibly including offices for Brown University, dorms for students, a parking garage and a commercial real-estate developer who would lease the space to (among others) the state consortium in charge of this public/private project.”
Editorial. Providence Journal 30 December 2013.