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Lists: Rhode Island CIOs

Ranked by number of local employees: 1. Lifespan Corp. | No. of local employees: 17,468 2. University of Rhode Island | No. of local employees: 3,239 3. Fidelity Investments...

Lists: Estate Planners

Total number of estate planners: 90 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to make additions or...

Lists: Defense Contractors

Total local employees: 11,133 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to make additions or corrections, call...
OUTSIDE THE BOX: A crane moves a modular housing unit into place on Bowdoin Street in Providence during ONE Neighborhood Builders’ construction of an eight-unit apartment house that was completed in 2022. 
COURTESY ONE NEIGHBORHOOD BUILDERS

Are more modular homes part of R.I.’s housing solution?

For years, the 15,700-square-foot lot on Bowdoin Street in Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood sat empty and strewn with garbage after a fatal fire destroyed several...

Business Bestsellers

Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass by Ramin Setoodeh.  Setoodeh chronicles Trump’s tenure as New...

To Savor: The rise of orange wine

Orange wine is all the rage right now, and it has many different descriptors. It is growing like rosè wine did about 10 years...

Lists: Highway Projects in Rhode Island

Total cost of projects: $1.7 billion SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to make additions or...

Lists: Cannabis Dispensaries

Total cannabis sales in Rhode Island in 2023: $138.9 million SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists,...

Lists: Commercial Printers

Total full-time employees: 276 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to make additions or corrections, call...
DIGGING IT: Narragansett Bay Commission Chairman Vincent J. Mesolella, center, examines the progress made in the combined sewer overflow tunnel deep below Pawtucket. He is surrounded by contractors working on the project. Behind Mesolella is the boring machine that chewed through 2 miles of bedrock over three years.
COURTESY ­NARRAGANSETT BAY COMMISSION

A boring job completed;
enormous impact ahead?

After taking three years to travel little more than 2 miles, the Narragansett Bay Commission finally reached a finish line of sorts in February...
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