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Rental housing prominent among tax-credit projects

Rhode Island has approved 23 projects for state historic preservation tax credits since temporarily reviving the program a year ago – none of them...
FROM THE GROUND UP: Décor Craft Inc. recently moved to a new Mathewson Street home, where owner Roni Kabessa has assembled a team of college interns to launch the Providence firm’s new spinoff company, Coexs. Pictured above, from left, are: intern Hanna Yang, Kabessa and intern Liana Flikier. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Interns recruited to build startup

In a sleek, white-walled downtown Providence office, five young people gathered around a central conference table bang away on laptops trying to build an...
GAINING TRACTION: Traction Software’s quality-management system has caught on with its clients in ways even company executives didn’t imagine. Pictured above are Traction President Greg Lloyd, left, and Vice President of Sales Jordan Frank. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Social tools being adapted for Web-based QC tool

Houston-based oil-rig consulting firm The Athens Group first started using a quality-management system from Traction Software Inc. of Providence six years ago for an...
NEXT EXIT? Construction on the Providence Viaduct at the Atwells Avenue exit on Interstate 95 South. The crisis over the solvency of the federal highway trust fund could jeopardize similar projects in Rhode Island. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Highway fix short-term relief for R.I.

On one side of the state line, Massachusetts highway projects are plowing ahead, despite the crisis in Washington, D.C., over the solvency of the...

Could municipal broadband give city economic boost?

Like innovation districts and farm-to-table restaurants, municipal broadband networks are trending. From Chattanooga, Tenn.’s publicly owned gigabit fiberoptic network to Google Fiber in Provo, Utah,...

Risky, yes, but perhaps a better way

Five years ago, Rhode Island used what for the state was, at the time, still a relatively novel approach to renovating the terminal at...
BASE LEVEL: The General Electric Providence Base Plant building has been vacant since 2000 and is pegged for demolition despite the protests of preservationists. / PBN PHOTO/JAIME LOWE

Does empty mill have dark future?

A new preservation battle is brewing in Providence’s Eagle Square, ground zero for debate about the future of Rhode Island’s historic industrial buildings. The General...

Blackstone zoning plan seeks to limit development

In most neighborhoods, the pair of two-story colonials that began rising on a Providence street corner four years ago – one cream-colored, the other...

Renewable program 2.0 looks to grow industry in R.I.

Rhode Island is turning up the dial on its renewable energy program. State lawmakers last month approved a new, expanded version of the “distributed generation”...

Partisan differences energize power plans

Rhode Island energy policy has evolved and changed course at the will of its chief executive for the past decade. For former Gov. Donald L....
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