This month on Brave Little State, we head to the Northeast Kingdom to answer a listener question about a stalled redevelopment project.

The “pit,” as Jill calls it, is a block of demolished buildings in the center of Newport’s downtown district. 

The backstory is complicated: The buildings here were razed in 2015 to make way for a mixed-use redevelopment project dubbed the Renaissance Block.

Source: https://www.vpr.org/post/whats-plan-pit-middle-newport

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