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TABLE TALK: Anika Kimble-Huntley, second from left, chief marketing officer at R.I. Commerce Corp., confers with her staff at the R.I. Commerce headquarters in Providence. The staff includes, from left, Mark Brodeur, director of international and domestic group sales; Lindsay Russell, deputy director of communications and stakeholder engagement; and Robin Erickson, domestic tourism and marketing operations director. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

ATTRACTION STRATEGY: R.I.’s chief tourism marketer setting plan to entice visitors...

Print Featured 03/17/2023

With the start of the peak tourism season approaching, Anika Kimble-Huntley is eyeing the billions of dollars that potential visitors to Rhode Island could...

TIGHTKNIT OPERATION: Employee Maria Monteiro works on a rug at Rhody Rug Inc.’s manufacturing facility in Lincoln. The company produces 1,500 braided rugs per week and supplies hundreds of rug dealers nationwide, says President Scott Weldon. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Where braided rugs are rolling out the door by thousands

Print Featured 03/17/2023

(Editor’s note: This is the seventh installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...

Is R.I.’s rate of new business starts a problem?

Print Featured 03/17/2023

At first glance, the Rhode Island business community’s growth during the COVID-19 pandemic looks impressive: since 2019, new business applications have shot up by...

MARQUEE SALE: The coastal estate known as Treasure Hill, located at 2 Kidds Way in Westerly, was the most expensive home sale in Rhode Island in 2022 at $17.7 million and one of only two of last year’s top 10 home sales to reach eight figures. COURTESY LILA  DELMAN COMPASS

JUST CHILLING: White-hot R.I. luxury market shows early sign of cooling...

Print Featured 03/03/2023

By most measures, 2022 was a banner year for Rhode Island’s luxury real estate market. A total of 617 homes sold for more than...

TAKE IT TO THE BANK: Kira Greene, founding agent at Compass Real Estate’s Providence office, is handling the sale of a former bank in Pawtucket that was marketed as a residential-commercial property. The building is already under contract. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Your next home could be a school, church or bank

Print Featured 03/03/2023

Real estate agent Kira Greene is no stranger to selling high-end homes, but one of her latest listings in Pawtucket took things to a...

Not everyone is sold on McKee’s plan to boost MBE program

Print Featured 03/03/2023

AFTER THE STATE last year exceeded the minimum requirements for awarding government contracts to minority- and women-owned businesses, Gov. Daniel J. McKee wants to...

NEIGHBORHOOD PRIDE: Olin Thompson, a Jewelry District resident and amateur historian, points to the architectural features on a stone building at 110 Elm St. that was once a foundry and is now leased by Brown University for administrative and medical offices.  PBN PHOTO/CLAUDIA CHIAPPA

Brown’s land of opportunity: University’s expansion is welcomed but is school...

Print Featured 02/17/2023

Olin Thompson’s Jewelry District walking tour begins at the corner of Richmond and Ship streets in Providence, on a plaza covered in stepped, wooden...

UNCHARTED TERRITORY: Bill Krarmer is the president of US Extruders Inc. in Westerly, which recently applied for an R.I. Commerce Corp. grant to work on recycling old fishing nets as plastic material for new products. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Starting over hasn’t curbed manufacturer’s desire to improve, innovate

Print Featured 02/17/2023

(Editor’s note: This is the sixth installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...