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June 8, 2007

Alert: Buddy's really back -- back in Providence

Journal photo / Andrew Dickerman
Former Providence Mayor Vincent A. Buddy Cianci Jr. began work today at The 903 Residences, a 330-unit condominium complex in Providence.

PROVIDENCE -- Former Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. started a new job today -- but not the one everyone thought he would. And it's not in Boston either.

He is assistant to the project manager at The 903 Residences, a 330-unit Providence condominium project, according to a news release from public relations firm Chaffee Communications.

The 903 Residences were originally built and developed by a Texas company. The apartments were later bought by the Paolino family -- that's Joseph Paolino Jr., who followed Cianci as mayor in the 1980s.

Paolino, a developer, partnered with an investment group out of New York that bought the complex for $81 million, it was reported in 2005, to convert it into condomiums.

It's also the condominium complex where Cianci's daughter, Nicole, and her children now live.

Paolino had called a friend, which helped Cianci land a post-federal prison job at a different hotel -- the one where a different public relations firm had said Cianci would start work early this month: Fifteen Beacon, a luxury hotel on Boston's Beacon Hill.

No immediate explanation was given today why Cianci, known to all as Buddy, is working in a different hotel.

"We are pleased to provide the former mayor with the opportunity to use his wide range of marketing and management capaibilities on behalf of our exciting and successful 903 condomium project," said Fred Vincent of The 903 Residences.

More about Cianci's recent prison release ...

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

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