Kevin Shalvey
AIA announces 2008 design award winners
PROVIDENCE – The American Institute of Architects’ Rhode Island chapter last month announced the winners of its 2008 design awards.
Honor Awards:
• William Kite...
Five Questions With: Sean T. O’Leary
Ferland Corporation, a northern Rhode Island housing development and management company, has since December been making an effort to bring Rhode Islanders displaced by...
Existing-home sales increased in December
WASHINGTON – The national annual rate existing-homes sales increased 6.5 percent from November to December, the National Association of Realtors announced last week.
The seasonally...
As prices fall, multi-family sales soar
WARWICK – Multi-family home sales in Rhode Island rose 33.2 percent in 2008, led by a 92.9-percent year-over-year increase in the final three months...
Realtors: Condo sales cool in 2008
WARWICK – With nearly 600 fewer Rhode Island condominium sales than in 2007, the 2008 year-end total of 1,210 sales represented a decline of...
A place to gather, but where to shop?
Each Tuesday and Friday, retirees Donald Fairley, Edward S. Thomas and John Antonaccio meet at about noon near the interior fountain at Rhode Island...
Five Questions With: Arria Bilodeau
The R.I. Department of Transportation earlier this month gained approval from the R.I. State Properties Committee to start the bidding process to sell the...
Employment, prices biggest concerns of builders
LAS VEGAS – The inability to sell currently owned homes and concerns about employment and economy are the biggest issues keeping prospective homebuyers out...
Local ice cream chain slated for Quonset
NORTH KINGSTOWN – The Inside Scoop, an ice cream shop with branches in Cranston and North Kingstown, is set to open its third location...
Sandywoods Farm development receives financing
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Housing last week announced a $15 million financing package for Church Community Housing Corporation’s mixed-use Sandywoods Farm, an award-winning development...














