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A RENDERING ILLUSTRATES plans for a joint URI/RIC nursing-education center at South Street Landing. Contractor Gilbane Building Co. will begin work on the project around the end of October, the company said. / COURTESY CV PROPERTIES LLC

South Street Landing project slated to start in late fall

PROVIDENCE – Gilbane Building Co. will work with Commonwealth Ventures to convert the former Dynamo Power Plant building into South Street Landing, beginning near...
THE CENTER FOR Women & Enterprise will continue offering the Self-Employment Assistance Rhode Island program in partnership with the R.I. Department of Labor and Training to help eligible unemployed Rhode Islanders with an entrepreneurial spirit start businesses of their own.

DLT, CWE extend program for entrepreneurial unemployed

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Labor and Training will continue offering a program in collaboration with the Center for Women & Enterprise to...
THE REDEVELOPMENT OF the Garrahy Judicial Complex parking lot into a 1,250-space parking garage cannot go forward until any three developable plots on the former Interstate-195 land known as The Link sell. Above, a layout of the proposed garage drafted by Fuss & O'neill. / COURTESY FUSS & O'NEILL

Convention Center Authority to seek proposals for Garrahy garage

PROVIDENCE – Plans to build a parking garage near the Garrahy Judicial Complex are moving ahead even though the sale of at least three...
DIRECTING TRAFFIC: Jeni Pardo de Zela, right, marketing director at Lila Delman Real Estate, looks at website analytics with Marina Hare, a Salve Regina graduate working on social media marketing at the company. Pardo de Zela credits Hare’s work on Facebook for an increase in website traffic. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Schools teach how to engage socially

For Marina Hare, social media networking is all about raising her employer’s profile – a skill the 20-year-old is perfecting in her job as...
THE RIGHT TOOLS: Guill Tool & Engineering’s Dajah Goncalves, 22, was hired in part because of her training at NEIT’s Shipbuilding/Marine Trades And Advanced Manufacturing Institute. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

SAMI job training fills R.I.

A training program developed by the New England Institute of Technology and manufacturers in Rhode Island is starting to have an effect, if only...
IN THE ZONE: Employees from AfterZone program provider DownCity Design demonstrate hands-on engineering at the Providence Career and Technical Academy on June 5. / COURTESY CHERYL ADAMS-JOHNSON PHOTOGRAPHY

PASA’s social impact recognized by index

The Providence After School Alliance is the only homegrown, Rhode Island nonprofit on the S&I 100 Index compiled by the Social Impact Exchange in...
"I learned over and over through 15 years of drafts that a line that reads perfectly on the page can be deadly in the mouth of an actor."

Five Questions With: Tony Estrella

Gamm Theatre Artistic Director Tony Estrella, a Pawtucket native, has been an actor and director with The Gamm/Alias Stage since 1996. He assumed his...

Mechanics Cooperative gives to Steppingstone, First Step

FALL RIVER – Mechanics Cooperative Bank has donated $2,500 to Steppingstone and the First Step Inn for its work supporting the homeless. According to...
BEVIN BANKSTON, the Rhode Island TruFit Good Citizen Scholarship winner, center, stands with Ryan Pearson, regional branch manager, and Jennifer Fierri, group operations manager for the education finance team on July 28 at the Wickford Stop & Shop branch of Citizens Bank in North Kingstown. / COURTESY CITIZENS BANK

Citizens Banks gives scholarship to Bankston

Citizens Bank in Providence has awarded a $5,000 TruFit Good Citizen Scholarship to Saunderstown resident Bevin Bankston for his community service work. Saunderstown spans North...

Veteran’s Inc. gets $300K in grants

WORCESTER, Mass. – A $225,000 grant for Veteran’s Inc. from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program has been renewed. A second...
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