That's interesting; the media reports down heah made it sound like the mill
was being rehabbed into a shopping complex, not demo'd to make way for a
cookie cutter big box. Which in an area surrounded by historic housing like
what I saw in the TV reports, sounds like an awful juxtaposition.

D.

On 11/16/03 7:00 PM, "William Gould" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> This is what I know to date.  I have a friend who has a loft in an old
> textile mill about a mile from the fire and have not had a chance to speak
> with him yet.
>
> It was the Greenhalgh mill complex, built in 1906, in the Darlington area of
> Pawtucket R.I.  Demolition workers were in the process of salvaging the old
> beams prior to the fire breaking out.  The mill was being razed to make way
> for a new Super Stop & Shop.  For those of you who don't have Stop & Shop it
> is a huge grocery stop.  The fire destroyed  eight houses and damaged nine
> more.
>
> I'm already getting a picture of who was dong the actual work on the demo
> and they probably were not from the good old USA.

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