Article by Raluca Preotu


The Project

"Would you like to savor 'a little bit of Rockefeller Center' in Rhode Island's capital city?" (Providence Journal, October 18, 1997)

The idea of a skating rink was in the air since the 1970s, when two plans for downtown Providence conceived of such an ice rink. The current project was called for since 1996, and announced by the Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. on October 17, 1997. The Providence Journal article which presents the Mayor's idea for a future skating rink downtown frames the project in the terms of a competition with the ice rink at the Rockefeller Center in New York City. Despite the fact that the NYC skating rink covers 7,198 feet, the article touts the Providence one as "a 14,000-square-foot surface, or nearly three times the size of the surface at the Rockefeller Skating rink, which is 5,000 square feet."

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