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Grow Smart Rhode Island – a nonprofit that advocates for sustainable economic growth in the Ocean State – will honor individuals, plans and projects that play to Rhode Island’s strengths, generate sustainable economic benefits and improve the state’s communities and neighborhoods at its second annual awards gala in June.
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By PBN Staff
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The future of the former Shooters nightclub property on the Providence waterfront sits delicately poised between the destination performing-arts venue a community group envisions and the sad, vacant lot it is today.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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There’s plenty that could go wrong with a business plan dependent on attracting small businesses to work in stacked shipping containers, beside a train track, near a busy convergence of highways pouring into downtown Providence.
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By Rhonda Miller |
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Water quality in Narragansett Bay and at beaches around Rhode Island is improving, but land development in coastal buffer zones and flood plains are “causes for concern,” according to an indicators report released by the Watershed Counts initiative.
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By PBN Staff
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By Rebecca Keister |
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The Omni Group Inc. has nearly made one corner of Federal Hill its own.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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Plans to turn a former chocolate factory in Mansfield into condominiums have been halted after local voters Tuesday rejected an article that would have rezoned the building for residential use, reported Attleboro’s Sun Chronicle.
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By PBN Staff
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PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Transportation, Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian and Cranston Mayor Allan Fung last week announced the completion of work on the bridge spanning the Pawtuxet River in Pawtuxet Village.
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8/27/12
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When the federal government repossessed the Medina Village apartments off Cranston Street in Providence’s West End in 2010, there was a real possibility the 22 vacant and decaying buildings in the complex would be abandoned.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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There is a growing national trend called design-build, and in short, it is a way for building projects to be executed more quickly, with fewer surprises and thus, at a lower cost.
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7/16/12
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