East Providence home on former brownfield sells for $1.1 million

By Ethan Hartley

Heralded as proof positive for the potential of developing East Providence’s long-neglected waterfront parcels, dozens of local officials gathered last Thursday morning on grounds that for decades welcomed only the traffic from heavy industry to cut a ribbon in front of a new single-family condo that had just recently sold for $1.1 million.

It was the first property to be sold at East Point, a $150 million development that looks to create 392 housing units in the form of apartments and single- and multi-family condominiums on the banks of the Seekonk River off Roger Williams Avenue in Rumford.

“As you look behind me, the East Side has nothing on East Providence anymore,” said City Council President Bob Rodericks during remarks at the event within the living room of the recently-purchased home. “We are really making a lot of our 14 miles of waterfront properties and land, which through the years mostly have been ignored. With all of you and this city council and the mayor and others, we are utilizing it.”

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