Olney Village Apartments

LID Type: Bioswale and bioretention

Use: Residential

Installer: TRAC Builders

Designer/Developer: Morris Beacon Design

Install Date: May 2013

Address: Manton Avenue, Olneyville, RI 02909

Town: Olneyville

Zip Code: 02909

County: Providence

Contact:

Jonathan Ford, PE

Principal, Morris Beacon Design

401.451.5123

Project Summary:

Seven bioretention systems and bioswales were woven into the site design of the Olney Village Apartments to filter and infiltrate runoff while saving money by eliminating the need for costly underground systems. The projectfeatures forty new affordable apartments, a food pantry that serves 700 families, and an afterschool theater-arts program – distributed on a number of sites within a concentrated area of Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood.

Project Narrative:

Olney Village apartments are concentrated around the William D’Abate Elementary School where twelve formerly foreclosed properties and several vacant lotsalong six residential blocks were transformed.  This project required substantial renovations to be made to eleven existing buildings as well as five new construction buildings in previously vacant lots.  Bioswales and bioretention systems are woven into the site design to naturally filter and infiltrate stormwater runoff and save money by eliminating the need for costly underground systems.

Project Factsheet From Morris Beacon Design

Olney Village Apartments
Olney Village Apartments
Olney Village Apartments

Address: Manton Avenue, Olneyville, RI 02909