The owner of the little-used Apex department store complex is suing Pawtucket to block the city s attempts to seize the property and redevelop it.
Lawyers for four entities calling themselves the Apex companies filed a complaint in U.S. District court last week to stop the systemic abuse of power by city officials who have relentlessly singled out the Apex Companies and tried to coerce them into giving up their properties.
The suit continues a multi-year disagreement between the city and property owner Andrew Gates, who has failed to do much with the nearly vacant department store building and surrounding surface parking lots.
A trestle provides an elevated view of the Moosup River. (Steve Fagin)
Coventry’s Nicholas Farm Management Area features equestrian trails. (Steve Fagin)
Sometimes it seems that the trees are watching you. (Steve Fagin)
Phil Plouffe and Maggie Jones stroll along a section of the Rhode Island North South Trail that crosses Route 6 near the border between Foster, R.I., and Killingly, Conn. (Steve Fagin)
Sections of the trail pass over flat, gravel roads. (Steve Fagin)
One abutting property owner makes his attitude about trespassers abundantly clear. (Steve Fagin)
Bob Graham, Phil Plouffe and Maggie Jones hike through a field in Coventry’s Nicholas Farm Management Area. (Steve Fagin)
The US Navy has agreed to make more than $39 million in repairs at the Newport Naval Station in Rhode Island that will ensure the facility is in compliance with laws regulating the discharge of stormwater into Coddington Cove, an embayment of Narragansett Bay.
“The projects under this agreement with the US Navy will help reduce discharges of soil to Coddington Cove,” said EPA Acting Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Larry Starfield.”Rhode Island communities will benefit through improved water quality in Narragansett Bay.”
Under the terms of a recent agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Navy will complete stormwater discharge infrastructure improvements by 2030 at the former Derecktor Shipyard, settling EPA allegations that the facility was in violation of the Clean Water Act. The repairs include seven specific projects along the bulkhead, a retaining wall along the waterfront.
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