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Garden City Alliance urges city to address long‑running Saugonasset intersection issues, vacant building and Topgolf fill pile

5681110 · August 26, 2025
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In public comment at the Aug. 25 Cranston City Council meeting, Pauline DeRosa of the Garden City Alliance described continued traffic problems at the Saugonassett/Hillside Road intersection, a long‑vacant office building and a large pile of fill behind the Topgolf site that she says has remained since 2016.

Pauline DeRosa, founder of the Garden City Alliance, told the Cranston City Council on Aug. 25 that long‑standing traffic and property issues in the Garden City Center — including congestion at a state‑owned intersection, a boarded‑up office building and a persistent pile of fill behind the Topgolf site — remain unresolved.

DeRosa described Hillside Road as an interior perimeter driveway within the Garden City Center that carries traffic to multiple points in the center and said congestion at the intersection of Saugonassett (state road) and Hillside Road forces additional delays. She…

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