Architect: Durkee Brown Viveiros Werenfels
Developer: Struever Brothers Eccles & Rouse
Other: McCormack Baron Salazar and the Olneyville Housing Corporation
Project Size: 1,800,000 gross sq. ft.
Total Project Cost: $232 million
Cost per Square Foot: $128/sq. ft.
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Civil Engineer: xxx
Commissioning Agent: xxx
Contractor: xxx
Developer: Struever Brothers Eccles & Rouse
Landscape Architect: xxx
LEED Consultant: xxx
Lighting Designer: xxx
MEP Engineer: xxx
Structural Engineer: xxx
Other: McCormack Baron Salazar (MBS) and the Olneyville Housing Corporation (OHC)
Project Size: 1,800,000 gross sq. ft.
Total Project Cost: $232 million
Cost Per Square Foot: $128/sq. ft.
Project Background
The American Locomotive Works (ALCO) project is a 23.5 acre urban brownfields project that includes the historic rehabilitation of 100+ year old buildings and new, infill construction. ALCO is a mixed-income, mixed-use, adaptive re-use project that mixes historic rehab and new construction at a tremendous scale located on the banks of the historic Woonasquatucket River, as it flows into Downtown. The project will remediate and restore many former manufacturing buildings into modern office, retail and residential space in accordance with National Park Service requirements.
Strategies and Results
The former train manufacturing building was rehabilitated into office and retail space. This location will be LEED Commercial Interior and will host a photovoltaic array on the roof. The new, public greenspace has hosted a Summer Concert Series for the neighborhood, contains underground mechanical storm water systems and connects to the new public river walk. The mechanical storm water management system, along with natural methods also, recycles 100% of the storm water.
There will be a living/green roof with rooftop atrium and deck on one of the former industrial buildings, an adaptive re-use mill. This building will host 123 mixed income apartments, and is currently registered as LEED for Homes.
By removing an existing roof deck, a courtyard was created to allow daylight to reach the windows within one of the former locomotive factories. The space now hosts the RI Economic Development Agency and the nation’s largest organic food distribution company, UNFI, which is certified as LEED Commercial Interior.
The project will allow public access to the Woonasquatucket River, creating a river walk and bike path and a public canoe/kayak launch, and create pedestrian connections across the river to transit stops by the restoration of railroad bridges as pedestrian bridges. Existing metal fencing, litter, and invasive plants will be replaced with sustainable plantings, a riparian buffer, and a public walking/bike path.
Since the site is environmentally contaminated, brownfields technology is used. This includes a soil vapor extraction system under floors, including air sparging wells and a permeable reactive barrier wall.
About American Locomotive Works
American Locomotive Works, originally developed between the 1880s and 1960s, has a storied history of ownership, use and change. The site encompasses two groups of buildings that were combined under the ownership of U.S. Rubber in 1918 — the U.S. Rubber Complex and Nicholson File.
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