Buildings with drive-thrus scarce on the market
The lap blankets, heat lamps and tent-like enclosures will only carry a restaurant so far in the winter. What restaurants really need are drive-thrus.
Or...
Dining Out: Encouraging numbers
Here in Rhode Island, so many of our choices when it is time to eat revolve around restaurants. It is one of the real...
The Wayfinder Hotel replaces former Mainstay Hotel in Newport
Building owner: Newport North Hotel Property LLC
Architect: Cordtsen Design Architecture Inc.
Developer/General contractor: Haynes Group Inc.
Cost: NA
Use: The Wayfinder Hotel, which opened in May 2020...
Condé Nast readers rank T.F. Green among top 5 airports in...
WARWICK – T.F. Green Airport was recognized as the “4th Best Airport in the United States,” according to the recently announced results of the...
Tourism needs R.I.’s full attention
The tourism sector is far too crucial to Rhode Island’s economy for it to get only partial attention from the state’s economic-development agency.
But that’s...
R.I.’s top tourism job in limbo
Almost five months after the state’s top tourism official resigned, R.I. Commerce Corp.’s promotional efforts “haven’t skipped a beat,” according to the agency’s interim...
5% hotel tax revenue declines 36.5% Y/Y in July
PROVIDENCE – Collection of the 5% hotel tax totaled $2.1 million in July, a 36.5% decline year over year, the R.I. Department of Revenue...
Dining Out: Naysayers may be wrong
Under normal circumstances, the restaurant industry can be tremendously exciting. Every night is a performance and a roll of the dice. Will our place...
Twin River rehires two-thirds of R.I. casino workforce, cutting remainder due...
PROVIDENCE – The company that operates the Twin River casinos in Rhode Island has rehired about two-thirds of its pre-pandemic workforce, according to a...
Local 1% meal and beverage, hotel tax collections decline 33% Y/Y...
PROVIDENCE – Collection of the Local 1% Meal and Beverage and Hotel taxes declined by nearly 33% year over year in July, amid the...
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