Our Locations

The Bay Center

Providence Bay Center via Drone

The Bay Center, dedicated on June 2, 2005, is an award-winning building with a mission. We designed and built this green building to serve our community as a living classroom and center for our marine science educational programs, administrative offices and community meeting space. The trails on our grounds are part of the Providence Urban Greenway Trail, inviting community members to enjoy this rare and beautiful urban access point to the Bay from sunup to sundown. The building itself represents Save The Bay’s approach to brownfields redevelopment and environmentally-friendly shoreline development.

The 15,042 sq. ft. building is located on a 6.07-acre site donated to Save The Bay by Johnson & Wales University. It features two classrooms, community meeting rooms, an art gallery, administrative offices, and an adjacent boathouse with a fixed pier and dock.

The Prince Charitable Trusts dock features a T-wharf capable of housing our fleet of education and restoration vessels. The wharf and dock have become the hub for upper Bay educational programming. Using the dock, children can collect and study upper Bay critters or test water quality in a matter of minutes, direct from habitat to the Bay Center classroom.

LOCATION

100 Save The Bay Drive,
Providence, R.I. 02905
(Directions below)

HOURS

Building: Weekdays, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Grounds: Daily, dawn to dusk.

ADMISSION

None

PARKING

Free

CONTACT

401-272-3540

Call us for information about building rentals

DIRECTIONS

*Please note:  Be sure to access the Johnson & Wales University Harborside Campus through the main entrance on Harborside Blvd. Your GPS app may suggest taking Ernest Street to JWU’s Shipyard Street entrance, but that route requires a key card for entry.  

From Route I-95 North or South, take Exit 35 (Thurbers Avenue). Head downhill on Thurbers Avenue to US Route 1A (Allens Avenue). Turn right onto Allens Ave. Continue southbound on Allens Ave. into Cranston, where Allens Ave. becomes Narragansett Blvd. Turn left onto Harborside Blvd. at the traffic light by the Shell gas station. Follow Harborside Blvd. through the Johnson & Wales Harborside Campus. At the end of Harborside Blvd., turn right onto Save The Bay Drive. Save The Bay Drive becomes a circular, one-way roadway as you approach the Bay Center. Parking is available in four guest lots after you pass the main building. Enter the building through the main entrance.

Save The Bay’s Hamilton Family Aquarium

The brick exterior of STB's HFA.
Save The Bay’s Aquarium is located at 23 America’s Cup Ave in Newport, R.I.

Our 7,000-square-foot aquarium in downtown Newport is home to hundreds of Narragansett Bay species. Our year-round exhibits—including three touch tanks—give you the best opportunity to discover the world beneath the waves of Narragansett Bay.

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The South Coast Office

Inside the South Coast Center
Inside the South Coast Center

This Westerly location opened in 2007 with support from the Forrest and Frances Lattner Foundation. Since that time, support from the Foundation and other local members, donors, and partners has helped Save The Bay to continue its work to advocate for water quality improvements to local waters, restore native habitats, and educate our youth about marine and coastal science.

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