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1. Sweetgreen opens first R.I. location in Cranston POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 18 National restaurant chain Sweetgreen Inc. opened its first Rhode Island location. The store, located at 111 Hillside Road in the Garden City Center will have pick-up, delivery and dine-in options.
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2. Cranston Plan Commission gives initial approval for 130-unit housing development POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 5 The Cranston Plan Commission unanimously approved the master plan for a 130-unit, mixed-use development with self-storage space on the site of the former Cranston Print Works facility. The applicant, CPW True Storage LLC and CPW Apartments LLC, is proposing to convert the existing mill into a multifamily apartment complex.
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3. PBN announces 2023 Best Places to Work honorees POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 28 Sixty-seven honorees have been named by Providence Business News for its 2023 Best Places to Work Awards program.
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4. Rhode Island Hospital president to step down amid ‘leadership structural changes’ POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 13 Dr. Saul Weingart has stepped down as president of Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital after more than two years on the job leading the Lifespan Corp.-owned entities. The leadership restructuring includes establishing a new position of chief of hospital operations and president of the hospitals.
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5. FDIC seeks to ban 3 R.I. financial executives POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 11 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seeks to ban three Rhode Island financial executives from working in the banking industry. The agency alleges Robert S. Catanzaro, founder and CEO of Independence Bank of East Greenwich, and Danielle M. Desrosiers, the bank’s former executive vice president, engaged in a pattern of “personal dishonesty” that put the soundness of the financial institution in peril. The agency also claims John C. Ponte, of Ponte Investments LLC, violated regulations and engaged in unsafe or unsound practices.
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6. Momentum finally building for R.I. tangible tax exemption POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 7 bit.ly/41UVgzr
7. CVS Health CEO’s pay increased 5% in 2022 despite opioid settlements POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 10
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8. Changes in mortgage fee structure may shake up industry PUBLISHED IN PRINT: MARCH 3
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9. Former Tarbox Toyota property in North Kingstown sells for $2.6M POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 6
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10. Local fishermen charged with evading taxes on millions of dollars in collective income POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 17
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