Steel Yard & Smith Hill CDC Partnership
On Friday April 25, local non-profit champions, The Steel Yard, partnered with Smith Hill CDC to clean and repair the artist-designed trash receptacles along the Smith Street Business Corridor. This maintenance program is designed to extend the life of the artist-designed trash receptacles.
For more information about the Trash Receptacle program click below.
Sprucing up neighborhoods includes designer trash cans
The Smith Street business center is part of the campaign to combat litter.
01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, May 23, 2006
BY KAREN A. DAVIS
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — Projects being launched this month in Smith Hill and Elmhurst promise smoother sidewalks and cleaner streets.
Forty custom-designed trash receptacles will be installed in the Smith Street business center, according to an announcement by Councilman Terrence M. Hassett.
Hassett, who represents the Ward 12 district that includes Smith Hill, said he allocated $35,000 in community development block grant money to enable the Smith Hill Community Development Corporation to buy the trash cans. The development corporation hired the Olneyville-based Steelyard Co., a coalition of local artists, to design attractive and durable receptacles.
“This initiative should begin to address the growing litter problem that many businesses and local residents have endured over the last several years,” Hassett said.
Hassett said there is a higher probability that debris will end up off the street if there is a trash can nearby.
City officials began delivering the cans last Wednesday.
“This is a project that our local agency views as a productive means of improving our neighborhoods — and we want to continue to expand,” said Francis Smith, executive director of the community development corporation.
The next step is for trash cans to be placed in the Chalkstone business district in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood.
Meanwhile, Councilman Patrick K. Butler, who represents Ward 5, announced that a project to improve roads and sidewalks will begin near Tyndall Avenue and Pasteur Street within the next two weeks.
Butler said the $243,833 project calls for the removal and replacement of asphalt, including the repair or adjustment of curbs.
He said the project calls for the replacement of sidewalks, installation of curbs accessible to people with disabilites and the planting of trees.
“The improvements will boost safety and enhance the aesthetic environment,” Butler said.
Butler said he has asked officials from the Providence Water Supply Board to replace the lead pipe connections to residential properties on Tyndall and Pasteur when paving begins.
The councilor said he has not received confirmation that the lead pipes will be replaced.
However, Butler, who is a member of the water supply board, said replacement of the antiquated pipes will help ensure the distribution of safe drinking water.
The project is being paid for by community development block grant money and neighborhood bond money, he said.
Two years ago, Hassett won a $500,000 state grant to make street improvements along Smith Street.
That project led to the planting of more than 65 trees last month, and this summer new crosswalks, street signs and lighting will be installed, Hassett said.
kdavis@projo.com / (401) 277- 7353
November 9th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Good words.