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Mary MacDonald joined the Providence Business News as a staff writer covering Government, Development, Real Estate and Manufacturing in December 2014. She previously was a correspondent for The Boston Globe and Telegram & Gazette, an editor at Patch/AOL, and a staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University, and a master’s degree in secondary English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

PETER PAGONIS is director of homeownership for Rhode Island Housing. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND HOUSING

Five Questions With: Peter Pagonis

Real Estate 02/23/2017

Peter Pagonis is Rhode Island Housing’s director of homeownership, which he has held since 2015. He also is the director of the Rhode Island...

A RENDERING of the design of the new two-story addition to the science wing of the Lincoln School in Providence. Designed by LLB Architects, of Pawtucket, the 3,040-square-foot addition will feature a dramatic glass-curtain wall facing the west and 20 vertical fins, or sun shades, spaced in such a way as to create rolling shade as the sun moves. / COURTESY LLB ARCHITECTS

New addition to Lincoln School will update building facade

Real Estate 02/23/2017

PROVIDENCE – The Lincoln School this summer will break ground on a significant addition to its science wing, a two-story addition that will allow...

Moses Brown debuts new performance center

Real Estate 02/23/2017

PROVIDENCE – The Moses Brown School has debuted the 36,000-square-foot Woodman Family Community & Performance Center, which is connected to the Walter Jones Library...

HOLLY HOUSE, built in 1900, recently sold for $2.75 million, the second-highest price in Newport so far this year. / COURTESY LILA DELMAN REAL ESTATE INTERNATIONAL

Holly House sells for $2.75M in Newport

Real Estate 02/23/2017

NEWPORT – One of Newport’s great houses, “Holly House,” sold last week for $2.75 million, according to Lila Delman Real Estate International, which represented...

RIIB approves $300K in loans to Portsmouth for septic repairs, replacements

Real Estate 02/23/2017

PORTSMOUTH – The Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank has approved a second round of funding to allow the town of Portsmouth to support loans to...

A LEADING ASIAN online travel agency is looking to create a U.S. operation in Providence, with the potential to create up to 200 jobs. The R.I. Commerce Corp. is expected to consider awarding Agoda up to $4.1 million in state tax incentives to come to the Ocean State.

Online travel agency looking to create up to 200 jobs in...

Economic Activity 02/23/2017

PROVIDENCE — A committee of the R.I. Commerce Corp. on Thursday is expected to consider awarding up to $4.1 million in state tax credit...

DR. PETER J. Snyder, senior vice president and chief research officer at Lifespan, is working with Aiden Petrie, co-founder and the chief innovation officer of Ximedica, on creating a new center to attract talent and spur business creation. They want to call it the New England Medical Innovation Center. / COURTESY LIFESPAN

New med-tech innovation center proposed for I-195 land

Economic Activity 02/21/2017

PROVIDENCE — Two well-known, Rhode Island executives with expertise in medical innovation told the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission Monday they want to create a...

THE NEWPORT SHIPYARD is seeking state permission to expand its capacity to accommodate larger yachts, according to an application before the R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council.

Newport Shipyard seeks state permission to expand

Capital Goods 02/20/2017

(Updated 1:40 p.m.) NEWPORT – The Newport Shipyard is seeking state permission to expand its capacity to accommodate larger yachts, according to an application before...

R.I. COMMERCE SECRETARY Stefan Pryor says that the state is relaxing eligibility for certain job creation tax credits after hearing from manufacturers who found them too restrictive for many of them to be useful. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

State expands eligibility for manufacturers for job credits

Capital Goods 02/17/2017

PROVIDENCE – The Raimondo administration will ask state lawmakers this year to modify state laws authorizing various economic development programs to encourage small manufacturers...

NEW SPACE: Landscape architecture firm Searle Design Group has moved into newly renovated space at the Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket. From left, owners Melissa Bagga, associate principal; Colgate Searle Jr., principal; and Taber Jossi Caton, principal, go over project plans. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Reshaping the landscape

Entrepreneurship 02/17/2017

The work of a landscape architect sometimes isn't readily seen: the gentle slope of a hillside that looks like it was always so, an...

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