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THE INDUSTRIAL TRUST Building downtown on Westminster Street, known as the "Superman" building, made the Providence Preservation Society's 2017 Most Endangered Properties list. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ RUPERT WHITELEY

‘Superman’ building, Cranston Street Armory, make Most Endangered Properties list

PROVIDENCE – Eleven properties made the Providence Preservation Society’s 2017 Most Endangered Properties List, including the Industrial Trust Building, better known as the “Superman”...
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Top 5 Property Management Firms

PBN's list of the Top 5 Property Management Firms, ranked by total square footage. For more information, or to purchase one of our top lists,...
A STUDY COMMISSIONED BY Pawtucket, the Pawtucket Red Sox and the state of Rhode Island looking at what to do with McCoy Stadium - rehabilitate it or tear it down and build a new stadium from scratch -- sees the second option as preferable, but it also concludes that the location of the stadium is not likely to produce much additional investment in the area around it. / COURTESY PAWTUCKET RED SOX

McCoy study sees current stadium site as impediment to ‘significant return’...

PAWTUCKET – To renovate, rebuild or move on? Those are the questions Rhode Island, Pawtucket and the Pawtucket Red Sox face after Pendulum Studio II...
BOSTON  PROPERTIES is planning to build a 38-story residential tower, complete with retail, office and hotel space, at North Station in Boston. Might this kind of project, shown in the above rendering, be built at Providence  Station? / COURTESY BOSTON PROPERTIES

More than a bus station, new transit hub sign of...

When Rhode Island voters approved a $35 million bond in the 2014 election to be used to create a transit hub at the Providence...
LATEST ADDITIONS: In the past year, Garden City Center in Cranston has attracted several new businesses, including British retailer Fat Face, Barrington Books, and L.L. Bean, which renovated an existing space for its only retail store in R.I. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Unique retail centers survive in ‘cold, cruel’ world

Brick-and-mortar retail has more staying power than recent high-profile closures of department stores might indicate. Online shopping continued to gain strength in 2016, according to...
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Beer co-op set to brew two years after fire

It was mid-March 2015 when Jeremy Duffy woke up at 5 a.m. to a text on his cellphone that showed two images of a...

4Q fuels record-breaking profit for WashTrust

WESTERLY – Double-digit fourth-quarter net income growth fueled record-breaking 2016 profit for Washington Trust Bancorp Inc., which posted earnings of $46.5 million on the...

Commerce approves $12.7M in incentives for Prov. projects

PROVIDENCE — The R.I. Commerce Corp. authorized state incentives for three companies on Jan. 23 that promise to rehabilitate vacant office buildings and build...
RESTORED: From the newly rehabilitated retail space on the first floor, a set of brass doors opens to the building's secondary stairwell. The stairwell, dating back to the building's inception, was restored and kept in place. / PBN PHOTO/MARK S. MURPHY

32 Custom House

Owner: HM Ventures Group 7 LLC Tenants: Apartments; KNEAD Doughnuts Architect: KITE Architects; South Coast Improvement Co. Developer and interior designer: ASH NYC Preservation consultant: Providence Revolving Fund Cost: $4 million ($482,000 in state Historic...
APARTMENTLIST.COM released its list of the best cities for families, and four Texas cities placed in the top 10, with Flower Mound, Texas, ranking first. / COURTESY APARTMENTLIST.COM

Best cities for families in R.I.? Cranston and Warwick

PROVIDENCE – Among Rhode Island cities, Cranston and Warwick are the best for raising a family, according to the ”Best Cities for Families” list...
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