BREAKING: City Reaches Deal with Providence College
Monday, December 17, 2012
The nearly yearlong pursuit by the city of Providence to increase the amount of payments in lieu of taxes from nonprofit universities and hospitals is almost complete.
Under the agreement, Providence College will make $3,842,607 in additional payments to the city by 2021, including $1 million upfront. In exchange, the city will give up 80,850 square feet of city-owned streets adjacent to the campus, including parts of Huxley Ave, Cumberland Street and Wardlaw Ave.
The amount Providence College is agreeing to pay is on top of the payments in lieu of taxes it agreed to make in 2003 when the city’s nonprofit colleges reached a dead to pay the city an additional $40 million by 2023. Under that deal, Providence College is slated to have its annual payments grow incrementally from $264,262 last July to $311,287 by the end of the deal.
Since calling on the major nonprofits to pay more to the city last February, Taveras has also reached agreements with Johnson & Wales University, Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Lifespan, Care New England and CharterCARE that will pay the city close to $50 million over the next decade.
Dan McGowan can be reached at dmcgowan@golocalprov.com. Follow him on Twitter: @danmcgowan.
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anthony sionni
12:14am on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Under the agreement, Providence College will make $3,842,607 in additional payments to the city by 2021, including $1 million upfront. In exchange, the city will give up 80,850 square feet of city-owned streets adjacent to the campus, including parts of Huxley Ave, Cumberland Street and Wardlaw Ave"
Are you kidding me??? Why do we have to keep giving up streets to get colleges to pay more money!!! Another bad deal!!!
Harold Stassen
10:07am on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Glad to see another tax exempt pony up. Even though PC has long been recognized for their excellent community service initiatives, that doesn't help the city pay the cost of providing costly services.
I also agree with the previous poster that it seems more like a business transaction than payment in lieu of taxes. Just about every one of the colleges who have renegotiated these payments has received valuable city property (streets, parking spaces, etc.) in return. I guess you don't get "nothin for nothin'"?