Pat Healy
Single women take rapidly rising place among home buyers
Unmarried female homebuyers have become fast-growing real estate customers in recent years, accounting for almost double the number of home purchases when compared...
Ballots locked in Boston safe hold key to Brown union bid
A box of ballots locked in a safe in a Boston office holds the answer to whether Brown University graduate employees will form a...
Treasures among trashed computer parts are SIMCO’s business
Company: SIMCO
Owners: Rick Gosselin and Cathy Klimasewski
Location: 30 Martin St., Cumberland
Employees: 2 full-time, 8 part-time
Year founded: 1991
Type of business: Scrap management
Annual revenue: WND
The warehouse...
SBA hails Affirmative Action efforts of two housing groups
As part of last week’s Small Business Administration’s Minority Economic Development Week, awards were given to some of the most influential figures in the...
‘I don’t consider my gender an obstacle; I think it gives...
Name: Jen Cookke
Occupation: President and CEO of Lincoln-based F.H. French Company and Blackstone Management
Background: Started Blackstone Management in 1997, and worked there as president...
For some, Route 195 relocations are painful, costly
Moving is hardly ever pleasant. For Al Mandell it wasn’t profitable either.
Mandell is among dozens of business owners displaced by the $446.9 million Route...
Not the Jetsons yet, but videoconferencing improving
Technologies imagined by Hanna Barbera in the cartoon The Jetsons might not
be that far off in the future. Although it...
Work sharing program catching on in R.I.
In a difficult economy, when employers don’t want to reduce their workforce,
they may opt to reduce their employees’ workweeks.
The Rhode...
Luxury apartments planned for South County Commons
The developer of South
County Commons plans to add more luxury apartments to the proposed development.
The project is already...
Real estate sector welcomes 2002
The real estate industry in Rhode Island kept its head above water during the difficult economic times of 2001 and predictions within the industry...














