City not realizing full potential of a significant human resource

PBN Staff

01/13/2017

TOUGH ROW TO HOE: Frank Ankoma, a native of Ghana, has created a successful menswear business in Providence, but it was not a simple or easy process. He thinks the city could do more to help immigrant business owners. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

A 2015 study by the Fiscal Policy Institute found that in Providence from 2000 to 2013 the number of Main Street businesses – which was defined as the kinds of shops and services that were “the backbone of neighborhoods” – owned by U.S.-born residents declined 12 percent to 4,342. At the same time the number

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