The Providence Journal / Bob Thayer
View looking west to Providence from Lewis Waterfront Park in East Providence. After decades of disuse, East Providence's waterfront is the biggest redevelopment project in the state. View the photo gallery.
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From the new Tockwotton on the Waterfront, Kevin McKay, its executive director, can look west across the water and see the Providence skyline. And he can look north and south along the shoreline, and see the future: development.
"We heard East Providence was trying to develop the waterfront," said McKay. "That got us looking here."
After decades of disuse, East Providence's waterfront is the biggest redevelopment project in the state, spanning 300 acres of prime waterfront real estate, extending 14 miles along the Seekonk River and the East Providence side of the Providence Harbor.
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