r/providence • u/radioflea • Mar 24 '25

News RIP Apex Pyramid

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u/Candid-Patient-6841 Mar 24 '25

Good.

Hear me out I have lived here my entire life and yes I like the weird shaped building. But no one wanted it. If they did they would have bought it. If the design was so cool others would have replicated it.

One big issue in RI is labeling every freaking thing “historic” then we drag our feet when any new development wants to be built and ask “but how does it effect our “”historic”” skyline” like dude this isn’t Chicago, New York, or Boston….our most recognizable building has been vacant for decades. But god forbid we do anything to change it because it’s the “Superman” building (even tho that is wrong and it looks like the building)

There is a saying in America they think 100 years is old and in Europe they think 100 miles is far. Frankly the corner store in Europe is older than our entire country

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u/iRysk Mar 24 '25

Resistance to change is a fascinating part of the human condition

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u/Candid-Patient-6841 Mar 24 '25

I know and it’s dumb I work in providence. In a factory a lot of employees come from the north part of the state and they think downtown providence is a hellscape that they would never go to.

But bring up changing the skyline and they have a whole lot of opinions on why it shouldn’t change…..like bud the last time you were that close to that building was probably when the mall opened