Quonset board gives OK to 43-acre yacht facility
The Quonset Development Corporation has given its preliminary approval to a 43-acre megayacht construction and repair facility proposed by Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Island Global...
Luxury condos being built<br> on old Katharine Gibbs school site
The Armory Revival Co. and Myles Standish Associates broke ground last week for a luxury condominium complex at the former Katharine Gibbs School site...
Joint ventures can pose risks to parties
It is the 21st-century way of doing business, especially in the global economy. A large U.S. company eager to develop cutting-edge technology will find...
Artists make challenging clients
Giovanni Cicione didn’t start representing artists because he had any artistic inclinations himself. Rather, he saw signing up for the Rhode Island Bar Association...
Insurer, lawyers fined $1.25M in 9/11 coverage case
Zurich American Insurance Group and two law firms representing the insurer have been fined $1.25 million for hiding evidence and denying coverage in a...
Dual-use applications are focus of undersea center
This spring, the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center awarded the University of Rhode Island $150,000 to create a Center of Excellence in Undersea Technology....
Embracing the defense market
An increasing number of technology workers in Rhode Island spend their days creating new technologies for the U.S. military and law enforcement agencies on...
No money for ALCO, RI-WINs in ’08
Rhode Island may not become the first state with a border-to-border wireless broadband network after all.
The R.I. Wireless Innovation Networks project is one of...
Donation helps R.I. Food Bank<br> through high-need months
The Rhode Island Community Food Bank recently received a tractor-trailer load of donated food from North Kingstown-based Ocean State Job Lot, its largest product...
A new start for drug-making plant
The Smithfield plant was built, with $30 million in state financing, for Alpha-Beta Technologies, but the drug company went bankrupt. Dow Chemical had big...
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