By Ethan Hartley

The sound of cheers filled the frigid morning air on Monday as representatives from local, state and federal government offices as well as private, public and philanthropic groups amassed in the center of East Providence for a groundbreaking of the first phase of a large affordable housing complex known as “City Center Apartments”.

The first phase of the project — the largest one yet to be undertaken by Providence-based nonprofit developer, One Neighborhood Builders — will include the renovation of an existing building at 350 Taunton Ave. and the construction of a new four-story building at 330 Taunton Ave. Eventually, as part of its second phase, a second new building (a mirror image of the 330 Taunton Ave. building) will be constructed at 354 Taunton Ave., with a plann

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