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The Roger Williams Gateway Center project is expected to be completed in the spring of 2022, according to the Department of Planning and Development. A groundbreaking was held on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. / Courtesy INFORM design studio.

$5M park gateway project coming to South Providence business corridor

PROVIDENCE – Spanning high above the entrance to the park, a long set of bright, multicolored fins is meant to represent the diversity and...
MARKET BASKET opened a new store at 1300 Hartford Ave. in Johnston, Rhode Island, on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. It's the company's second store in Rhode Island, after the first it opened in Warwick in May 2021. The Johnston Market Basket will be the 86th store operating between Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. / COURTESY MARKET BASKET

Market Basket brings 400 jobs to new $30M Johnston store, its...

JOHNSTON – As a line of eager shoppers waited outside to get a first look, doors opened at a new Market Basket in Johnston...
TAKING ACTION: Dr. Olutosin Ojugbele, a pediatrician at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, led the hospital’s application process for the “Accelerating Child Health Care Transformation” initiative. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Initiative at Hasbro Children’s Hospital to examine racial biases in pediatrics

Pediatric health care isn’t immune from racial inequities. That’s the starting point for a new grant-funded program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence and 11...
THE HEALING TOUCH: University of Rhode Island assistant professor Daniel Roxbury, left, and former URI graduate student Mohammad Moein Safaee display the “smart bandage” they spent two years developing. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI researchers are the brains behind ‘smart bandage’

Imagine a future with a bandage that could sense whether an infection was developing and could tell the patient or caregiver to get the...

McKee mandates masks in all Rhode Island school districts

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee issued an executive order mandating all school districts in the state to require students to wear masks in...
/ RENDERING COURTESY I-195 REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.

Pennrose $48M Parcel 9 apartment project gets concept plan approval with...

PROVIDENCE – The Parcel 9 project in the I-195 Redevelopment District, a massive two-phase mixed use development proposed in Fox Point, is undergoing some...
A Wayland Square mixed use residential project is favoring bicycles instead of parking spaces. But the Providence Planning Commission, during its meeting on Tuesday, put a pause approving the master plan, posting deliberations at the applicant’s request until a Sept 28 meeting. The commission has lingering questions about parking and the height of the building. / COURTESY PROVIDENCE CITY PLAN COMMISSION

Celtics co-owner’s Wayland Square project proposal limits car spaces, favors bicycles

PROVIDENCE – The Providence City Plan Commission is calling a timeout in the approval process for a new mixed-use development in Wayland Square, asking...
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced Monday that he is filing objections with the state Office of Health Insurance Commissioner to the personal health insurance rate increases proposed for 2022 by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island.

R.I. AG objects to individual, group health insurance rate increases

PROVIDENCE – In the wake of a devastating pandemic that continues to threaten the welfare of Rhode Island residents, and while government officials mount...
Bally's, a corporation previously known as Twin River Worldwide Holdings until it acquired the iconic casino brand one year ago, is almost ready to rebrand its Rhode Island casinos with new names. / PBN PHOTO/PAMELA BHATIA

Execs: R.I. casinos rebrand under Bally’s name is coming soon

PROVIDENCE – Could Bally's Rhode Island or Bally's Twin River be in the cards? How about Bally's Tiverton? Bally's Corp., previously known as Twin River...
COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES ON WESTMINSTER and Weybosset streets in downtown Providence remained empty during the summer of 2021. Vacancies at several downtown properties have been prolonged and, in at least one case, prompted by the pandemic, as a result of work stoppages and shutdowns, according to several downtown real estate investors. PBN PHOTO/MARC LAROCQUE

Post-pandemic vacancies, optimism abound in downtown Providence

PROVIDENCE – Sign, sign, everywhere a sign: “Retail opportunity,” says one. “Prime retail space for lease,” another. “Available now.” There’s plenty of prime storefront space...
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