Interview: Lanre Ajakaiye of 25 Bough Street - Rhode Island Monthly
Interview: Lanre Ajakaiye of 25 Bough Street The entrepreneur has big plans for 25 Bough Street, a community development and commercial impact project in Olneyville. December 21, 2020 Photography by Michelle Carpenter Lanre Ajakaiye drives around the neighborhood where he grew up in the Olneyville section of Providence for a tour that is half nostalgic, half hopeful of its resurgence. He makes stops at Hartford Park where he spent his early years as a child of Nigerian immigrants chasing Mr. Bill’s Lemonade Truck, then motors toward the building where he went to kindergarten when it was cal...