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BREEZE PHOTO BY CHARLES LAWRENCE
The Gamm Summer Youth Showcase partnered with the Pawtucket Family
YMCA and presented a special show of original performances at the Sandra
Feinstein-Gamm Theatre last Thursday. Above, players present an improvisation
of a taxi driver and three passengers. From left are, KARIANA GODETTE, 10, of
Pawtucket, ABBY SAVASTA, 9, Pawtucket, OLIVIA FOSTER, 9, of Cranston, in
the driver's seat, and JAZARI GONZALEZ, 10, of Pawtucket. See more photos
on page 14.
PAWTUCKET – The city's only
hotel, improved and with a new
name, is back and ready to welcome
guests.
Following a year of top-
to-bottom improvements
on the inside and outside
of the former Comfort
Inn, the new Hampton
Inn by Hilton Pawtucket
opened last week at 2
George St.
The hotel off I-95, fea-
turing some of the best
views of the Pawtucket
River Bridge, Slater Mill,
City Hall and the Apex
Department Store, wel-
comed its first guest after millions of
dollars in renovations.
Patti McAlpine, sales manager for
the hotel, said it's good for staff to be
back at work in new surroundings
designed to make the guest experi-
ence as positive as possible.
It's not that there was anything
wrong with the Comfort Inn way
of doing things, she said, but the
Hampton Inn, with its "100 percent
happy" guarantee for customers,
brings a fresh approach and a "much
better experience" she thinks visitors
will love. The guarantee means the
City's only hotel reopens
under new name after
year of upgrades
By ETHAN SHOREY
Valley Breeze Managing Editor
ethan@valleybreeze.com
See HOTEL, Page 11
Young talent takeover
PAWTUCKET – It's been almost a
year since a first-of-its-kind art instal-
lation over I-95 was supposed to
have been installed, but city officials
say they aren't giving up hope of
seeing it happen.
The Breeze has learned that costs
have ballooned beyond the $100,000
budget for the project, due in part
to higher fees the Rhode Island
Department of Transportation would
charge to shut down lanes of the
highway so work could proceed.
Installation was originally sched-
uled for August or September of last
year.
Sue Mara, acting direc-
tor of Pawtucket Planning and
Redevelopment, told The Breeze
Monday that the cost of shutting
down highway lanes is "not the main
issue."
"The cost of lane closures was
something we had assumed would
be part of the cost of construction,"
150-foot piece of 'landmark' art over I-95 is a year late
By ETHAN SHOREY
Valley Breeze Managing Editor
ethan@valleybreeze.com
See ART, Page 2
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