This Sunday's Providence Journal featured a great story about Providence's Steel Yard.  The Steel Yard is a unique organization located right here in our city that is helping to revive our economy.  From the Providence Journal:

Few people get to build their field of dreams, but nearly seven years ago, two young dreamers began to create theirs out of a fully equipped steel and iron fabrication company on the Woonasquatucket River, one of the area’s brick relics of 20th-century industry.

Since then, Clay Rockefeller and Nicholas Bauta have turned the former Providence Steel & Iron Co. into the Steel Yard, a unique arts, education and job development collaborative at 27 Sims Ave. Mayor David N. Cicilline says the Steel Yard has become a model for reviving the city’s industrial heritage.

Rockefeller and Bauta say their aim is to show that a creative endeavor can pay the bills.

About 2,000 people a year pass through the Steel Yard, in the city’s industrial Valley district, just a half- mile upstream from Providence Place.

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