Kevin Shalvey
R.I. Housing aids affordable-housing effort
NORTH KINGSTOWN – With a $23 million financing package secured in March, the new owners of North Kingstown’s Heritage Village have ensured that...
Newport pier being rebuilt for commercial fishermen
NEWPORT – The R.I. Department of Environmental Management last month began the reconstruction of Pier 9, a 195-by-18-foot pier that about 50 fishing...
Kirkbrae completes clubhouse upgrade
LINCOLN – Kirkbrae Country Club has completed a $500,000 renovation, according to club officials.
With new wall coverings, technology, carpeting and lighting, the facility...
Growth, mandates boost security at Davisville port
On the North Kingstown waterfront, the Port of Davisville is growing, said Steven J. King, chief operating officer of Quonset Development Corporation, the quasi-public...
R.I. Supreme Court rules for waterfront business
A 5-acre, waterfront parcel on which Promet Marine Services Corp. has operated for 25 years will be sold to the company instead of the...
Chocolate with a personal touch
When The Chocolate Delicacy sells gift baskets to corporate customers and other clients, the owners still insist on designing and assembling them themselves for...
Luring tenants with a view and made-to-order offices
For years, Douglas B. Riggs, president of Riggs & Gallagher Inc., had his eye on a waterfront parcel at Quonset Point – an oblong,...
Developer-influenced bill would modify tax credit
Two bills introduced this month in the General Assembly would modify the state’s Historical Preservation & Heritage Tax Credit program without imposing an annual...
JWU, RISD students find alternative in campus cafés
Johnson & Wales University senior Kimberly Lagana doesn’t know where she’ll be working in May, when she graduates from the food-service management program, but...
Obama lacks support from most black corporate elite
Barack Obama’s quest to become the first black president is being run without the financial support of much of the black corporate elite.
Less than...
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