Quonset Development Corporation has partnered with a developer to build the first of what could be more than a dozen buildings with flexible office space for startups and small businesses in Quonset Business Park. more

Pamela House considers herself lucky to have found someone willing to take a chance and offer her a foot in the door to a lifelong career when she was a single mother in the late 1970s, with only a part-time job and no real job training. more

Workers install wooden piles as well as rebar for concrete beneath the new Sakonnet River Bridge on Sept. 24. The new bridge is on the left; the old one on the right. Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee joined officials from the R.I. Department of Transportation for a tour of the new bridge the same day. DOT opened northbound traffic on Route 24 onto the new bridge Sept. 20. Southbound traffic on Route 24 will also shift to the new bridge. The bridge and ramps are set for completion in 2013. Construction crews broke ground on the $163.7 million bridge project, which carries Route 24 between Tiverton and Portsmouth, in April 2009. more

After outstripping national growth in recent years, the Massachusetts economy has “dropped into a lower gear,” according to the Leading Economic Index released Thursday by the MassBenchmarks editorial board. more

At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, the Narragansett Bay Commission broke ground on a part of Phase II of its combined sewer overflow abatement project, at the Rite Aid parking lot at 80 Manton Ave. in Providence. more

Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee joined officials from the R.I. Department of Transportation and members of the media for a tour of the new Sakonnet River Bridge on Monday. more

Confidence among U.S. homebuilders climbed in September to the highest level in more than six years, adding to signs of progress in residential construction. more

Although all industries and individuals have benefitted greatly from the availability of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), perhaps no industry has benefited more than the construction industry. The reasons to use ADR are compelling. more

A stormwater-culvert problem that’s dragged on for approximately 20 years, causing drainage trouble for businesses in a long-established neighborhood in Bristol, will finally be resolved thanks to the Tanyard Brook Culvert replacement project. more

East Bay Community Action Program CEO Dennis Roy expects the number of patients his nonprofit health care organization treats to double shortly after Medicaid expands under the national health care law in 2014. more