Massive 297-unit apartment complex aimed at 'millennials' breaks ground in Warwick | Providence Journal

Wheeler Cowperthwaite | Providence Journal

WARWICK – A massive mixed-use building with nearly 300 new apartments is starting to go up in Warwick, across the street from the entrance to the train station at Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport.

Called Skye City Centre, the 297-unit apartment building will have a mix of one- and two-bedroom units, ranging in size from 650 square feet to 1,100 square feet.

On a 5-acre lot, the mixed-use building, with multiple commercial spaces on the ground floor, including a "high-end" restaurant and a café, is at the corner of Thurber Street and Jefferson Boulevard, across from the Hilton Garden Inn and one of the airport parking garages.

The 5-acre site will be partially the four-story mixed-use building with multiple commercial spaces and 297 apartments and partially a five-level parking garage with 437 spaces, along with 60 surface parking spaces.

Warwick's zoning standards for its "City Centre" require 1.5 parking spaces per one residential unit, or 445 parking spaces. The only way the apartment complex would get the amount of parking needed was to build a parking garage, developer Michael Integlia said.

The parking garage and the mixed-use building will be one big structure. On the residential side, there will be two courtyards, one of which will feature an inground pool, Integlia said.

The mixed-use project is being developed by Michael Integlia & Company and LeCesse Development Corp.

Tariffs caused delays and redesigns

Construction on the site was supposed to start in 2025, but President Donald Trump's initial round of tariffs that targeted building supplies caused the project price tag (now $120 million) to dramatically rise. That resulted in a year of reimagining the development, replacing steel and aluminum with wood and swapping foreign-manufactured mechanical systems, such as Mitsubishi HVAC systems, with an American-made alternative.

The American-made mechanical systems came with their own problems: increased prices because many of the component parts are made overseas and therefore subject to tariffs.

Even after they changed designs, materials and mechanicals manufacturers, the developers were still facing major cost increases and had to get additional funding from investors, Integlia said.

Sand blows across the Skye City Centre construction site on April 23, 2026.

Getting to the 297 apartments was a push and pull of "right-sizing" the development and finding how many units were needed to support the building size and the required parking garage.

New complex is marketed toward millennials and commuters

The complex is mostly marketed toward millennials, professionals who will commute to Providence, New York or Boston, based on the easy train and airport access. However, with the amenities and level of trim in each apartment, it is likely there will be a mix of age ranges, including those who are looking to downsize but want to stay in the area.

The apartments will range from $2,500 to $4,000 a month.

Each floor will have a dedicated coworking space as well as private rooms to take meetings.

Crews work on the new four-story, 297-unit apartment complex that is structurally combined with a five-floor, 437-space parking garage, called "Skye City Centre," on April 23, 2026.

The larger two-bedroom apartments will also have a "den," a space that does not fit the legal definition of a bedroom but can function well as an office.

Amenities for the complex will include a gym, a golf simulator, a spa, a pet spa, a pet run, an in-ground pool and courtyards.

Restaurant and café

On the first floor, at the corner of Thurbers Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard, one of the restaurants will have a large outdoor space for al fresco-like seating, Integlia said.

The restaurant space will be 5,000 square feet, although negotiations are ongoing over which company will take up the lease.

Integlia bought 100 acres, the former Leviton Manufacturing property, 12 years ago and has since turned it into five projects: a 75-unit condo building, an industrial building, the 297 apartments under construction, a 200-unit apartment building that is in the works and a solar farm on top of heavily environmentally contaminated land.

The apartments are on the site of the former Elizabeth Mill, demolished in 2015.

The first 60 units will open in two years and the remainder of the building is set to open about three months later.