1. PBN announces 2024 Best Places to Work POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 29. Providence Business News has named 67 honorees for its 2024 Best Places to Work Awards Program. The companies and organizations were judged based on human resources policies and completed confidential surveys of employees put together by Best Companies Group. The companies will be honored in a special event on June 6.
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2. Providence panel OKs 178-unit affordable housing proposal POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 16. The Providence City Plan Commission approved a mixed-use development that would bring 178 affordable housing units to 220 Blackstone St. in the city’s South Providence neighborhood. The project, titled Copley Centre I, will be constructed on the 4-acre site that was once home to the Edmund Flynn School.
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3. Gemma Foundation’s Gemma-Corcelli, Day Pitney’s Evangelista among PBN’s 2024 Business Women Awards honorees POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 15. Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation Executive Director Maria Gemma-Corcelli and Day Pitney LLP Managing Partner Renée A.R. Evangelista were named Career Achiever and Outstanding Mentor, respectively, as part of Providence Business News’ 2024 Business Women Awards Program. They were among 22 industry leaders and women to watch, along with 12 achievement honorees, named in this year’s program and will be honored May 23.
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4. Trinity Rep announces 2024-25 season; ‘A Christmas Carol’ to be presented off-site POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 24. Six shows, including the retelling of a Christmas holiday classic and a world premiere production, will be part of Trinity Repertory Company’s 2024-25 season. But Trinity Rep’s “A Christmas Carol” will be held off-site this season due to planned renovations of the Chace Theater.
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5. Reid resigning as Providence College’s provost POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 22. Sean F. Reid is resigning as Providence College’s senior vice president of academic affairs and provost after serving in that role since July 2020. It remains unclear as to why he is stepping down, but he will remain with PC as a full-time faculty member within the finance department of the School of Business.
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6. Swarovski office building in Cranston sells for $8.8M POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 9.
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7. Would a 2nd medical school in R.I. be worth it? PUBLISHED IN PRINT: APRIL 26.
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8. 7 local colleges among U.S. News’ best graduate schools POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 9.
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9. Correctional officers union blames RIDOC director for recent prison violence POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 15.
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10. RIPTA CEO Avedisian to be criminally charged for leaving scene of fender bender POSTED ONLINE: APRIL 1.
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