Kevin Shalvey
DOT awards Sakonnet Bridge contract
PROVIDENCE – A $163.7 million state construction contract for a new Sakonnet River Bridge has been awarded to Cardi Corporation, the R.I. Department of...
Federal funds to rehab airports’ taxiway, runway
WASHINGTON – The $6.2 million in federal grant funding that’s been slated for safety improvements at two Rhode Island airports will rehabilitate a taxiway...
Five Questions With: James H. Libby
The city’s newest hotel, the just-opened Hampton Inn & Suites Providence Downtown , is in a Weybosset Street building that had been a Franciscan...
Wind turbine maker considering R.I.
PLYMOUTH, Mass. – Aeronautica Windpower LLC, a wind turbine manufacturer that has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with a Denmark-based windpower company, has been...
R.I. firms climb in Fortune 500 rankings
NEW YORK – The two Rhode Island-based companies with enough revenue to be on the annual Fortune 500 list this year both improved their...
Brown sells Old Stone Bank for $2.1M
PROVIDENCE – The former Old Stone Bank building, a South Main Street landmark topped by a signature gold-leaf dome, has been sold.
Brown University sold...
Market Mobile delivers fresh produce to chefs
Since its 2004 inception, Farm Fresh Rhode Island has grown from a support group for local farms into an organizer of seasonal and year-round...
An investment in green dry cleaning
In the backroom of Green & Cleaner, where dry-cleaned shirts, pants and jackets are bagged and tagged, hundreds of small placards shaped like tiny...
Neighborhood Opportunities Program crucial for homeless
Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless, a nonprofit advocacy group, earlier this month led about 300 people on a march from Kennedy Plaza to...
Providence sees home prices drop by half
SHELTON, Conn. – In Providence, the median price for a single-family home was halved in the first quarter of 2009 compared with the same...
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