Neighborhood: Olneyville/Valley, Providence

A large, dense, castle-like former brewery turned warehouse space on the edge of Olneyville and Federal Hill

A collection of six brick buildings with a complicated history, series of owners, and name

A small, square remnant of a much larger Riverside Mills complex remained as City property for almost 30 years before being torn down.

A large, long, four-story 100 plus year old mill on the corner of Harris and Atwells is revived as apartments and commercial space

A long-standing and intact example of mill architecture from the late 1800s, available as studio and commercial space

An 1860s gasometer with unheroic uses for a century before being reborn as small business and community space

A series of late 19th and early 20th century mill buildings converted to residential during the boom of the mid-2000s

The first building in Rhode Island made from recycled shipping containers is available for lease as office space

A bricked-in and enclosed one-story building along Kinsley Avenue exploded in a chemical fire that leveled it and threw conder blocks across the street

A converted industrial office building became the State Traffic Tribunal but closed for better digs

A slowly built-up set of factory buildings that decayed for more than a decade before being razed for… a flower farm

A worsted yarn mill under the same ownership for 60 to 80 years has been home to small businesses and a plastics company for at least the last 20

A late ninteenth century dye house of the larger Weybosset Mills which has lately become a boutique hotel

An over 180-year-old mill structure with the Woonasquatucket river at its back and a former office building fronting Manton Avenue

A quietly operational General Electric light bulb plant for over 70 years until a swift demolition after 20 years of neglect

A state-of-the-art grenhouse, specializing in leafy greens and basil, opened in 2019 on the site of a former industrial plant

Two buildings, one still extant and the other recently demolished, in a fruit and produce warehouse portion of Valley Street

What was left of the former lumber yard along Harris Ave. was replaced with new office space in 2009

While only a small 2,600 sf portion of the original complex remains, it’s great that it was saved

One of the first artist-led redevelopment projects post-Eagle Square, these 21 units have remained in artist’s hands, some with afforability restrictions

A large mill complex of 13 buildings on 2 acres was converted to apartments and commercial space in 2005

An almost 100-year old business in an even older building was hastily razed in 2021

A newer complex of brick structures built up and around an almost 200-year old stone mill

A mill redevelopment that tried to be different than the typical luxury condos and one that change residential zoning to help make units more affordable

A 100-year-old ornamental steel and iron manufacturer gets a new life as a center for vocational training and art creation

One of the oldest mill structures in Olneyville, this building housed a collection of 60 artists who were forced out in 2004

An early entry into the luxury apartment market built in 2003. By 2005 it was purchased and redeveloped as 330 condominiums.

A 27,000 sf piece of the former US Rubber Works has been developed into the Waterfire Arts Center

A former power substation along the train tracks has most recently been an after-hours nightclub but has now been vacant since 2018

A dense complex of 20 buildings built over the course of 50 years has ben converted from maufacturing to new-arts-industrial to residential

A low set of one-story buildings built into a hill along Valley Street have been razed for… something, we’re not sure

The one that started a revolution. A 13 acre site, bounded by Atwells Ave, Eagle Street, and Valley Street, housing cheap artist studio space and the famous Fort Thunder arts collective.

A large complex of mill buildings spread out over three city blocks is only partially intact and undergoing revitalization in different forms

A circa 1900 collection of mill buildings are still in use as manufacturing, small business space, and studios even though the building itself needs maintenance