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Insurers, body shops at odds over repair costs

Economic Activity 04/26/2014

Would Rhode Islanders fresh off a car accident take their vehicles to a body shop classified by the state as “B” or second-tier in...

Wheels turning slowly on Providence bike share

Capital Goods 04/26/2014

Bike share isn’t easy. There’s community hostility to worry about – from drivers, anti-gentrification activists and even neighbors who don’t like a system’s chosen color...

STABLE ENVIRONMENT? Steve Durkee, principal at Cornish Associates, stands in front of the Kinsley Building on Westminster Street in Providence. Cornish Associates bought the Kinsley Building from Johnson & Wales University in 2012, but has been waiting for a decision on whether it will get a tax-stabilization deal before turning it into apartments. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

City weighs tax-incentive changes

Economic Activity 04/26/2014

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on Providence’s use of tax-stabilization incentives. Next week’s story will explore the challenges for...

ROAD WORK: The $10 million TIGER grant, if successful, would go toward expanding phase two of a project to include a new two-lane highway ramp running parallel to I-95 North. / COURTESY R.I. DOT

Fight for TIGER grants on

Economic Activity 04/26/2014

For the second consecutive year, Rhode Island and Providence will throw competing highway and mass-transit expansion plans into the race for federal transportation funding. After...

STAY A WHILE: The principals of Northeast Collaborative Architects want to expand and convert their historic office building into an extended-stay hotel called Exchange Hotel. / COURTESY NORTHEAST COLLABORATIVE

Market for hotel rooms warming in Newport County

Capital Goods 04/19/2014

In Middletown, the owners of Atlantic Beach Hospitality Group have resurrected plans suspended during the recession to replace the Knights Inn motel on Aquidneck...

‘Rapid bus’ lines part of new development districts

Capital Goods 04/19/2014

(Corrected, April 21, 9:40 a.m.) Providence is encouraging transit-oriented development in two neighborhoods most residents may not associate with transportation or potential growth. The Trinity Square...

ON THE MOVE: Stan Humphries, chief economist for Zillow Inc., says that increased rent prices are partially a function of an increase in foreclosures. / COURTESY ZILLOW

Slowdown in appreciation rates will spur home sales

Economic Activity 04/19/2014

Homeowners who can’t help checking their address on Internet property value trackers like Zillow’s “zestimate” likely weren’t happy with Stan Humphries, the real estate...

PATH TO SUCCESS: Michele Berard, executive director of the Butler Hospital Foundation and president of the Rhode Island chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, said “hope is not a strategy.” / COURTESY BUTLER

Fundraising becomes chosen path

Education 04/12/2014

Nonprofit fundraising, known as development in the trade, has emerged as a distinct profession only in the past few decades. But even in that...

NEXT LEVEL: By moving into metal reclamation and refining, Advanced Chemical has been able to diversify outside of the jewelry industry. From left are company Vice President of Operations John Jendzejec II, co-owner Rozlynn Smith and Sales and Marketing Director John Antonacci. / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Turning waste into gold – literally

Capital Goods 04/12/2014

The jewelry industry doesn’t just throw away the used rags, floor mats or spent metal-plating solution involved in manufacturing. Because these materials often contain traces...