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NEW WORKSPACE: Peter Gillespie, senior vice president and branch manager for Cross Insurance Inc., stands at the entrance of the company’s new offices at The Foundry in Providence. 
PBN PHOTO/MATTHEW MCNULTY

‘Low supply and low demand’: R.I. office market undergoing ‘repositioning’

On a sunny summer morning at the Foundry in Providence, Cross Insurance Inc. employees move past exposed brick walls and soaring 14-foot ceilings before...
IN PROGRESS: Co-owner Eric Smallwood works with a product at tableware manufacturer Myrth Ceramics in East Providence.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Meet the Makers: Myrth Ceramics looks to scale up

(Editor’s note: This is the 46th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...

Question about Quonset sludge facility not a simple yes or no

Rhode Island has less than three years to decide what to do with the hundreds of tons of sludge created each week at its...

Lists: IT Services Companies

Total local employees: 1,856 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. List researched by Mesj Associates. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to...

Lists: Regional Information Technology Employers

Local IT workers: 2,921 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. List researched by Mesj Associates. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to...
SOON ON 
THE MOVE: 
A pair of elephants lumber around their 2-acre habitat at Roger Williams Park Zoo. All three elephants that live at the zoo will be leaving next year because of increasing health issues as they age.
PBN PHOTO/
MICHAEL SALERNO

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: RWP Zoo left scrambling for money to boost attendance,...

It’s safe to say that nearly all of the hundreds of thousands of people who visit Providence’s Roger Williams Park Zoo each year make...
NEW NEIGHBOR: Centreville Bank is preparing to move into the Lauderdale Building on Westminster Street in downtown Providence, a few doors down from Chase Bank and The Washington Trust Co. 
PBN PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

Banks doubling down on downtown branches

Bristol County Savings Bank cut the ribbon on its new full-service branch at 5 Exchange St. in downtown Providence in March, placing another community...
GOV. DANIEL J. MCKEE has nominated Michelle Reddish, the administrator of the R.I. Cannabis Office, to become the next chairperson of the R.I. Cannabis Control Commission after a seven-month vacancy. The governor's office said an interim administrator will be name once Reddish is confirmed by the Senate. PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

New cannabis chair tabbed, but delays remain

Seven months after the chairperson of the R.I. Cannabis Control Commission stepped down, Gov. Daniel J. McKee has found a replacement. But his pick for...
Helena Buonanno Foulkes

R.I. can offer so much to believe in

During my 25 years at CVS Health Corp., I watched the same pattern play out over and over: We recruited people to our Woonsocket...

Lists: Commercial & Industrial Services Companies

Total employee count: 1,231 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. List researched by Mesj Associates. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or...
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