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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...
"SOARING UTILITY costs have placed a severe financial strain on the operating budgets of public housing authorities across the nation," said Providence Housing Authority President Stephen O'Rourke. /

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...
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‘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...
GILBANE BUILDING CO. Project Manager Jim Kennedy, left, discusses ongoing work on the Intermodal Station in Warwick. Listening during the Oct. 28 briefing are Gov. Donald L. Carcieri, center, and Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian. /

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...
BRANDED: Civil co-owner Guido Silvestri saw a market serving youth from the East Greenwich area who before his shop opened had to drive to Warwick or Providence for their skating and snowboarding needs. /

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...
SPOTLESS: Tim McInnery, left, and Hector Rodrigues do more than windows at So Fresh & So Clean Hand Car Wash and Detail's Vandewater St. location in Providence. /

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...
GOING GREEN: Latasha Bell, a Dell Inc. employee, assembles a Dell OptiPlex desktop computer at the company's facility in Lebanon, Tenn., last week. Dell is hoping to win customers with earth-friendly PCs. /

Computer makers are eyeing profit in &lsquo;green&rsquo; 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...
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