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INVOLVED: Jim Boscov is the chairman and CEO of Boscov’s, billed as the nation’s largest family-owned department store, which is moving into the former Nordstrom location at Providence Place mall. He said running a business doesn’t happen from an office, but rather on the sales floor.
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An outlier comes to Providence Place

While other department stores have closed as sales slip away with changing consumer preferences and a migration online, Reading, Pa.-based Boscov’s is an outlier....
INVOLVED: Jim Boscov is the chairman and CEOALTERNATIVE SERVICES: The Providence Place mall has evolved to compete with online shopping and e-retailers by adding alternative services such as the CycleBar cycling studio and renting space to Comprehensive Community Action Program for a “skills center” that offers computer and language classes, as well as job-training workshops.   / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

New stores help Providence Place evolve

To many, the closure of Nordstrom at Providence Place mall was a disheartening blow for the capital city, and further proof online shopping is...
JENNIFER TIDEY, left, and Peter Monti, both professors at Brown University's School of Public Health, will lead a newly funded Center of Biomedical Research Excellence focused on substance misuse and chronic disease. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY/NICK DENTAMARO

Brown using $12.5M NIH grant to fund research on substance misuse,...

PROVIDENCE — Brown University has been awarded a $12.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to launch a new Center of Biomedical...

RISD vice president takes research and planning job at Boston...

PROVIDENCE – Mara Hermano, vice president in integrated planning at Rhode Island School of Design, has been hired as vice president of institutional research...

Five Questions With: Dan Swedits

Dan Swedits, a certified public accountant and audit supervisor at Blum, Shapiro & Co., is one of a group of firm employees who have...
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Brown awarded $10.8M grant to develop opioid treatment program in criminal...

PROVIDENCE – The National Institutes of Health is awarding a $10.8 million grant to Brown University to develop and evaluate an opioid treatment program...

Five Questions With: Joseph M. McNamara

Joseph M. McNamara, a longtime Democratic state representative from Warwick and a retired Pawtucket educator, was named chairman of the New England Board of...
TWENTY-FIVE ACCOMPLISHED business leaders have been selected by Providence Business News for the inaugural 25 Over Fifty-Five awards.

PBN names inaugural slate of 25 Over Fifty-Five winners

PROVIDENCE – Providence Business News has chosen the winners of its inaugural 25 Over Fifty-Five program, recognizing noteworthy business leaders who are 55 and...

Five Questions With: Jonathan Stone

On Saturday, July 27, Save The Bay Inc. Executive Director Jonathan Stone will join about 400 other swimmers and kayakers for the annual Save...
A RENDERING OF what the University of Rhode Island's College of Engineering complex will look like when opened later this year. / COURTESY BALLINGER OF PHILADELPHIA

URI alum donating $10M to benefit new College of Engineering complex

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Businessman and University of Rhode Island alumnus Michael D. Fascitelli is donating $10 million to help equip the university's new engineering...
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