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A home for the homeless in Pawtucket
PAWTUCKET – The renovation of a former funeral home on Garden Street into permanent housing for the homeless was celebrated this week by state...
Picerne wins 7th military contract
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Picerne Military Housing has been awarded the final of 35 military-housing privatization contracts that have been given since 2001 as part...
Granoffs to rehab Arcade for $8M
PROVIDENCE – Granoff Associates LLC today announced plans to renovate the Arcade, repositioning it for the future with LEED certification and an updated HVAC...
R.I. home sales keep dropping, as do prices
WARWICK – The median price of homes sold in April fell 10.7 percent year-over-year, to $242,000 from $271,000 in April 2007, the Rhode...
Great Chowder Cook-Off slated for June 7
NEWPORT – More than 20 New England restaurants will serve up more than 3,000 gallons of clam, seafood and “creative” chowders at the...
Court extends FM Global site’s stop-work order
PROVIDENCE – A Providence County Superior Court justice yesterday issued a restraining order against the Town of Johnston, barring the town from issuing any...
Blue Cross sells 2 downtown office buildings
PROVIDENCE – In its first move into the metro Providence market, Boston-based Berkeley Investments Inc. this week announced it has purchased two downtown buildings...
R.I. 1Q home sales drop by 23%, prices 10%
WARWICK – Single-family home sales in the first quarter of 2008 across Rhode Island dropped 23.19 percent to 1,242, as the median price fell...
R.I. home sales drop for 8th month in a row
BOSTON – Sales of single-family homes and condominiums in Rhode Island fell for the eighth consecutive month in March, registering double-digit decreases, as weakness...
Governor: Historic tax credit to be ‘resurrected’
PROVIDENCE - Economic drivers and place-making tools are important to the state’s future prosperity, but, because of state budget deficits, certain programs have to...
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