Articles
The Lost Language of Villages
Narragansett Bay Housing Pace Picks Up
A Touch of Mayberry in North Kingstown
The NEW New England Village
Making A Point in Wickford
Creating a Traditional Seaside Village
New England White-Fence Villages Inspire Latest Housing Designs
Wickford Point Looks to the Past with Modern Housing Project
It Has 'A Feel of a Seacoast Village'

 

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Awards

2000 Coastal Living 
Award for Responsible Residential Development

"Your project exhibits sincere dedication to environmental and cultural awareness in development, the kind of development our magazine promotes."

1998 Southern New England Forest Consortium, Inc NEIGHBORWOODS Outstanding Residential Development
Award for the Advancement of Forest and Open Space Conservation

"Wickford Point takes the idea of cluster housing and moves the concept into one that merges both housing and non-developed spaces into a total neighborhood through the use of walking trails, conservation easements, and use designated open spaces.  We applaud Gilbane Properties for the extra time and effort it took to develop and execute such a plan and we are pleased it appears to be so successful."

1996 Builder Magazine
Builders Best

Developer/builder Bob Gilbane borrowed the look from the weathered shingle houses of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. He even hired a Nantucket firm --Aileen & Associates -- to design the models. Lots are narrow setbacks are shallow, and most garages are to the side or rear.

1995 Rhode Island American Society of Landscape Architects
Award of Merit

"A unique and thought provoking landscape planning project.....It was interesting see how the landscape architects applied some of the principles of the "new urbanism" movement (narrower roadways, smaller setbacks...) to a more rural or "village" context."