Kevin Shalvey
R.I. home prices down 13.7% in ’08
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – While national home prices fell by 10.6 percent last year, prices in the Ocean State fell by 13.7 percent, the fifth-steepest...
R.I. shops among 300 Starbucks to close
SEATTLE – Some Rhode Island coffee shops are expected to close this year as Starbucks Corp. (NYSE: SBUX) shutters about 300 “underperforming” locations worldwide,...
Warren Group: R.I. home sales, prices fall in ’08
BOSTON – Single-family home sales and the median sale price both fell about 13 percent last year in Rhode Island, according to year-end statistics...
RIAR: Sales, prices of local homes <br> mark double-digit declines in...
WARWICK – Sales of single-family homes in Rhode Island fell 12.5 percent last year as the median price of those homes fell 14.6 percent,...
In aggressive pursuit of customers
At Wishes Under Wrap, a 15-year-old gift-basket and gourmet-food shop in Johnston, owner Laurie Langford late last year found herself out around town, marketing...
Tourism in Ocean State gets boost
Srgjan Kerim, a diplomat from Macedonia and the president of the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, visited Rhode Island last year...
Next phase of ALCO project to create <br> thousands of local...
The Providence City Council in December approved a tax-increment financing (TIF) plan for the American Locomotive Works project in Olneyville. The plan will allow...
New tenant is coming to Lincoln’s Albion Crossing
The A.T. Cross headquarters in Lincoln, which went through a purchase-and-partial-leaseback deal in 2007, will get its first new tenant this spring, the building’s...
Warren mill to become AVTECH headquarters
For more than two years, AVTECH Software worked with the City of Newport to put together a plan to buy the former Sheffield School....
Prices plummet, home sales hold own in state
While single-family home sales in Rhode Island last year fell by 15 percent, New England sales fell even more, by 18.4 percent year-over-year, according...
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