The Kingstonian. For someone who hasn’t seen the flashy commercial renderings, it’s hard to even describe what it is. A complex of buildings designed for a mixture of uses—from a hotel, to apartments, to shops, to a parking garage—is it a single structure? Or a new neighborhood, placed within Uptown Kingston to breathe new life into the old Stockade District?
On the website advertising the project, The Kingstonian claims to be the “Future of Kingston, Shaped by the Past.” 
That’s not the worst tag line I’ve ever heard, but when I saw “revitalization” printed below it, gory images of crumbling 1960s urban renewal projects came to mind. And that’s probably not the past they want you to think about.

The Aidan Galloway