Kevin Shalvey
R.I. Realtors: October home sales rise <br>but prices continue to fall
WARWICK – Although October single-family homes sales in Rhode Island rose 15 percent compared with the same month of 2007 – the second consecutive...
Real estate turnaround still a ways away
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s commercial and industrial real estate markets this year have slowed, as the residential housing crisis has turned into an across-the-board...
Mall insulated from owner’s woes
If General Growth Properties Inc., the Chicago-based retail giant that owns Providence Place, files for bankruptcy, it’s unlikely to lead to a significant disruption...
Transport service offering new city dining experience
Maybe you’d like to start a night out with a roasted-beet salad at Loie Fuller’s on Providence’s West Side, followed by a wood-fired pizza...
CapLease hopes building upgrades will lure tenants
Re-leasing a 35-year-old Johnston building with about 346,000 square feet of commercial space poses a few unique challenges, but New York-based Capital Lease Funding...
Tourism strength in ’07 could be hard to match
Last year was a good year for tourism in Rhode Island – with spending in 2007 jumping 9.3 percent from 2006 – but it’s...
Docs’ fear of being sued affecting treatment
About 80 percent of Bay State physicians have prescribed unnecessary tests or given patients referrals that weren’t needed, for fear that they’d be sued...
Shopping season starts strong at larger stores
WARWICK and CRANSTON – At smaller shops on this Black Friday morning, managers and clerks had an optimistic outlook, but they also had fewer...
Five Questions With: Melanie Delman
Melanie Delman, the second-generation president of Lila Delman Real Estate, has been posting her musings and insights about culture in Rhode Island on a...
Cable show to feature Little Compton project
LITTLE COMPTON – The ongoing renovations at the Stone House are set to be featured on Discovery Channel’s Planet Green channel.
The redevelopment of...















