Kevin Shalvey
R.I. to get $668K in housing funds
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last week announced that Rhode Island public housing authorities would receive $668,370 in funding...
NAR index drops to 8-year low
WASHINGTON – In the face of job losses and a slowing economy, pending home sales have declined across the United States, according to the...
NK builder certified ‘green verifier’
NORTH KINGSTOWN – David Caldwell Jr., vice president of Caldwell & Johnson Inc., has become one of the National Association of Home Builders’ “green...
Five Questions With: Donovan D. Pypkema
At the Providence Preservation Society’s annual meeting, to be held Jan. 22 at the Providence Public Library’s main branch, PlaceEconomics principal Donovan D. Rypkema...
State moving to sell Shooters property
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Transportation (DOT) yesterday started the process to sell by the end of 2009 the former Shooters nightclub parcel...
Consultants attending to bottom lines of clients
Since the economy has plunged, David Kellogg, a banking and financing consultant operating as Kellogg Associates in Providence, hasn’t changed the way he markets...
Carnegie Abbey a towering presence in Portsmouth
Headed south in the main shipping channel in Narragansett Bay, when your boat rounds the southwestern tip of Bristol, it’s difficult to miss the...
R.I. ranks fourth in housing-price drops
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Through October, year-over-year home prices fell 16.12 percent in Rhode Island, giving the Ocean State the fourth-highest percentage for falling home...
SWAP breaks ground on Providence development
PROVIDENCE – Stop Wasting Abandoned Property Inc. this month broke ground on a new six-home development in lower South Providence funded in part by...
NAR: Commercial investment ‘essentially halted’
WASHINGTON – With a lending drought and fewer workers in many companies, commercial real estate investment, aside from cash transactions, has “essentially halted,” according...














