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"WITH ALL of the technology that exists today in our business you still need a local presence," Lila Delman President Melanie Delman said. / COURTESY OF LILA DELMAN REAL ESTATE

Five Questions With: Melanie Delman

A little over a year after opening an office on Block Island, Lila Delman Real Estate is expanding in the opposite direction. The luxury...
GOV. LINCOLN D. CHAFEE , left, and Toray executive John Eustis tour the Churchill Falls hydroelectric plant in Canada on Saturday. / COURTESY OFFICE OF GOV. LINCOLN D. CHAFEE

Chafee seeks to tap Canadian hydropower

LABRADOR, Canada – On Friday, the Canadian government said it would back a loan to expand a massive hydroelectric power plant along the Churchill...
LOFTY IDEAS: Customer Kelly Healey in The Loft,  the restaurant portion of the recently reopened NYLO Hotel in Warwick. / PBN PHOTO/NATALJA KENT

Nearly 17 months after floods, NYLO reopens

The video of the restaurant in the NYLO Hotel in Warwick is hardly on track to win an Oscar. But it almost brought tears...

Innovation tax credits finding few takers

The tax credits were nice, but it was the thought that counted for Dr. Jonathan Elion, the founder of software company ChartWise Medical Systems...
CLEANING UP: Alicia Lehrer, executive director of the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, at the Allendale Mill Pond in North Providence. / PBN PHOTO/NATALJA KENT

Woonasquatucket cleanup options expected in fall

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2000 officially declared cleaning up the polluted Woonasquatucket River near Centredale Manor a national priority. This October, after...

Bennett to take lead on job creation

Former Providence Mayor Joseph R. Paolino Jr. calls James Bennett a fighter. He’s a former professional hockey player, an entrepreneur and a business executive...
INROADS: Brothers Joel, left, and David Cohen own two properties that will be along Waterfront Drive, including an old mill complex. / PBN PHOTO/RYAN T. CONATY

Road project to open waterfront land to development

Joel and David Cohen have been anxious to redevelop two properties near the East Providence waterfront for decades. There’s just one hitch: no direct...
THE TORAY Films Division in North Kingstown. / COURTESY NORTH KINGSTOWN

Toray Plastics seeks $1 million from EDC for solar farm

PROVIDENCE – Toray Plastics (America) Inc. is in line for a $1 million grant from the R.I. Economic Development Corporation to construct a solar...

DOT starts work on Hope Street in Bristol

BRISTOL – The R.I. Department of Transportation began this week a $3 million project to improve Hope Street in Bristol. The DOT said it planned...

Lila Delman opens Providence office

PROVIDENCE – Luxury real estate firm Lila Delman Real Estate has opened an office in the upscale East Side neighborhood of the capital city. The...
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