Ocean Community Chamber buys blighted Westerly building for $350K
WESTERLY – The Ocean Community Chamber of Commerce announced on Wednesday that it has purchased a blighted building in downtown Westerly, which it plans...
02908 Merchant Association launches to connect, inform North End businesses
PROVIDENCE – In the 25 years that Wole Akinbi has lived in Smith Hill, the neighborhood has lacked a resource available to small businesses...
Do you support Providence Place mall’s new policy requiring teens to...
Providence Place mall on March 24 began requiring teens to be accompanied by adults after 5 p.m.
The policy bars youths under 18 during school...
Roberts named SBA’s 2025 Small Business Person of the Year in...
PROVIDENCE – Kaitlyn Roberts, CEO of Easy Entertaining Inc., has been named the 2025 Small Business Administration's Small Business Person of the Year in...
Is Rhode Island a supportive environment for minority entrepreneurs?
Rhode Island in the last few years has supported steady growth in the minority-business community, according to government and anecdotal data.
Black-owned small businesses grew...
R.I. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce opens new headquarters
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce officials on Friday formally cut the ribbon on the Chamber’s new headquarters at the historic James...
R.I. hopes to again score big with ‘March Madness’ in town
PROVIDENCE – True basketball madness is coming to Rhode Island’s capital city for the first time in close to a decade.
With that, local hospitality...
Connect with Commerce: Cannabis startups don’t qualify for federally funded programs
(Editor’s note: This is the fourth in an occasional series focused on questions from Providence Business News readers for R.I. Commerce Corp. Secretary Elizabeth...
Commerce board members want close eye kept on new venture capital...
When a $2 million proposal to start a state-sponsored venture capital fund to spur more high-potential startups came before the R.I. Commerce Corp. board...
Commerce Corp. approves creation of Rhode Island Venture Capital Fund
PROVIDENCE – R.I. Commerce Corp.’s board of directors on Monday voted unanimously to hire Oregon-based Rogue Venture Capital to manage a newly created venture...
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