Woonsocket, Roger Williams University To Focus Students On Reviving Main Street
RIEDC pilot program creates courses in revitalizing urban communities.
If you like to brag you learned on the streets in Woonsocket, you're about to share that distinction with students at Roger Williams University. The city, Main Street in particular, will soon be the classroom for the university's students thanks to a pilot program from the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC) marshaling the university's Community Partnerships Center on the city's languishing downtown center. Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced the partnership between (RIEDC) and Roger Williams University for community revitalization efforts within urban communities at the State House Thursday at 11 a.m. Chafee, Roger Williams University President Donald J. Farish, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, Woonsocket Mayor Leo Fontaine …
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Tina Rivard
3:31 am on Saturday, October 27, 2012
I commented why was it not put up more ›