1. PBN selects 2024 Leaders & Achievers honorees POSTED ONLINE: JULY 8. Providence Business News named 25 honorees for its 2024 Leaders & Achievers Awards program. The honorees, who all will be recognized Aug. 22 at Aldrich Mansion in Warwick, were chosen from multiple nominees based on their leadership, achievements and long-standing commitment to the business community.
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2. Former Nonviolence Institute Director Cedric Huntley dies POSTED ONLINE: JULY 11. Cedric Huntley, who had been a vital figure in pushing for peace and nonviolence in Providence, including leading the Nonviolence Institute for three years, died July 10 at the age of 65. He served as the institute’s executive director from 2020 through 2023.
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3. Eastside Marketplace, Stop & Shop in Johnston are closing down POSTED ONLINE: JULY 12. A Stop & Shop supermarket in Johnston and the Eastside Marketplace at 176 Pitman St. in Providence will close by the end of the year, the stores’ parent company, Ahold Delhaize USA Inc., announced. The two Rhode Island locations are part of 32 underperforming stores the company is closing in the Northeast.
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4. 2 banks doing business in R.I. are on Time’s list of top-performing midsize companies POSTED ONLINE: JULY 19. Two banks that operate in the Rhode Island market have been named among the 500 top-performing midsize companies of 2024 by Time magazine and Statista Inc., which collects business data. Citizens Financial Group Inc. ranked No. 272 and Berkshire Bank ranked No. 434 of U.S. companies with annual revenue of between $100 million and $10 billion.
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5. Jewelry District buildings demolished ahead of Brown’s ‘integrated life sciences’ project POSTED ONLINE: JULY 5. Brown University is continuing its expansion in the Jewelry District of Provicence, demolishing two buildings next to the university’s Warren Alpert Medical School to make way for a seven-story laboratory building. The recent destruction of the buildings at 233 and 261 Richmond St. marks the start of a construction project that is scheduled to take nearly two years to complete.
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6. U.S. News ranks The Miriam best hospital in R.I. POSTED ONLINE: JULY 16.
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7. Kirby Perkins to lay off approximately 58 employees POSTED ONLINE: JULY 26.
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8. Providence Community Health Centers lays off around 40 employees POSTED ONLINE: JULY 10.
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9. Providence Place financial picture gets darker with Macy’s spot uncertain POSTED ONLINE: JULY 29.
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10. Quinn steps down as chairperson of state ethics commission POSTED ONLINE: JULY 23.
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