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NEWPORT – The city zoning board gave its approval on Monday to an application to raze the former Boathouse Restaurant on Lower Thames Street, replacing it with a three-story six unit multi-family complex.
A rendering of the future 636 Thames St.
According to an application filed by Betsy Braconi of Canton, Mass., current plans are to demolish the one-time downtown hot spot, replacing it instead with a 7,509 sq. ft. shingle or clapboard style structure. [click to continue…]
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NEWPORT NOW – Driving into town through the North End, you may have noticed a barrage of cement trucks, front loaders, and hard hats converging on an until-recently vacant lot just off JT Connell Highway.
That’s where Coastal Extreme Brewery, makers of Newport Storm beer and Thomas Tew Rum, have broken ground on their new brewery facility, scheduled to be complete some time 
in 2010.
The local brew crew is reporting on the progress on their website, which has gotten off to a quick start, breaking ground just hours after the city issued them a building permit a little more than a week ago.
The new facility is one of only a handful of major construction projects currently underway in the city, and is sure to be a step up for Coastal Extreme, which for the past ten years or so has been operating out of the Middletown Tradesman Center, where its brewing equipment was first set up.
Photos after the jump. [click to continue…]
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