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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will award $300,000 to Woonsocket-based NeighborWorks Blackstone River Valley to execute grassroots efforts to revitalize public housing at the Veterans Memorial Housing and transform the Our Neighbor’s Planning District neighborhood.
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By PBN Staff
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Slowed down by the Great Recession, downtown Providence’s renaissance is gaining steam, as new retail establishments follow the capital city’s reawakening residential momentum.
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10/15/12
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Bell Helicopter, the Fort Worth, Texas-based subsidiary of Textron Inc., broke ground on its new global headquarters on Monday.
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By PBN Staff
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The commission managing the former Interstate-195 lands considered the $900,000 in this year’s state budget the minimum needed each year to redevelop and maintain the downtown properties. But I-195 Commission Chairman Colin Kane said Monday that state budget officials have told him they expect that money to last three years.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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Coast to Coast Fulfillment Inc., a leading product fulfillment house in the Northeast, will double the size of its warehousing and order-processing center in West Greenwich.
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By PBN Staff
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PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Transportation said last week that it planned to begin the rehabilitation of a bridge carrying off-ramp traffic from Exit 4 on Interstate 195 East to Veterans Memorial Parkway in East Providence on Nov. 17. The work will require a partial closure of the exit until summer 2013.
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11/19/12
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BOSTON – Gov. Deval L. Patrick this month outlined initiatives designed to produce 10,000 multifamily units of housing per year, the first production goal of this kind set by any state in the country.
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11/19/12
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If planners and architects had their way, when people start building large residential projects again they would look something like the
By Patrick Anderson |
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It’s smaller than first imagined, but a redesigned riverfront park slated for downtown Providence’s former Interstate 195 land should be better than the larger, original design, city and state planners say.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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At a time when small and simple are fashionable, the owner of the
By Patrick Anderson |