Kevin Shalvey
Providence firm awarded preservation honor
PROVIDENCE – Durkee, Brown, Viveiros & Werenfels Architects last week was given a National Preservation Honor Award by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The...
Stonestreet tapped to lease Belvedere
BRISTOL – Developers of The Belvedere Hotel, an 18-unit, mixed-use project in Bristol, have chosen Providence’s Stonestreet Corp. to market and lease the building....
Unetixs opens facility in Quonset
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Unetixs Vascular, a firm specializing in instruments for diagnosing vascular disease, has opened a 30,000-square-foot headquarters in Quonset Business Park.
The building,...
Riverwood program gets federal grant
PROVIDENCE – Riverwood Mental Health Services last week announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded the organization a five-year, $2...
Five Questions With: Stephen O’Rourke
The Providence Housing Authority last month announced that it will be partnering with Framingham, Mass.-based Ameresco to implement a $12.1 million program to improve...
‘MED Zone’ concept generates <br>great interest, many critics
A six-year-old economic development tool designed by the R.I. General Assembly to allow “distressed” municipalities to create special zoning to draw new retailers has...
Carcieri urges support for train-station funding
During a construction “update” for the train station being built in Warwick, R.I. Airport Corporation CEO Kevin A. Dillon last week stressed the potential...
Skate shop seeks brand recognition
If you look closely at the sign, stickers and T-shirts printed with ‘Civil,’ the name of the new skateboard-snowboard shop on Main Street in...
One-stop shop for a clip and a buff is taking...
There’s a putting green to practice your stroke. And there’s a barber shop. But the business’ centerpiece is a car wash that lets you...
Computer makers are eyeing profit in ‘green’ PCs
Proving Kermit’s adage, Dell Inc. spent three years building 25 prototypes before the computer maker found a way to twist bamboo into a natural...














