Okay, I’m going to let you in on something. Most Huntsvillians only have the vaguest sense of what the Village of Providence actually is. They’ve maybe been there once. They’ve maybe eaten at one place there that one time. And then they go on with their lives.
That’s a mistake, and I’m here to fix it.
The Village sits just off Highway 72 in northwest Huntsville, and it does not look like the rest of Huntsville. The same firm that designed Seaside and Rosemary Beach down on 30A drew this place up back in 2001, and you can feel it. There’s a fountain. A grassy park. Pediatrics of Providence is located two blocks from a wine bar, which is the kind of zoning logic that makes a neighborhood feel organic. It’s compact, it’s pretty, and it functions like a real walkable downtown, which is something Huntsville needs more of…