Tag: Commerce RI
R.I. Innovation Campus committee named
PROVIDENCE – A seven-member committee will review 16 recent submissions to create a Rhode Island Innovation Campus, with a tentative time-frame of awards being...
Commerce RI to consider Qualified Jobs Incentive for Epiq Systems to...
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Commerce Corp. board of directors is scheduled to meet Monday evening to discuss and consider tax incentives, Innovation Campus committee...
Commerce RI launches small business hotline, ad campaign
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Commerce Corp. launched a new small business hotline number Monday, (401) 521-HELP (401-521-4357) designed to make it easier for small...
Do you like Commerce RI’s less centralized plan for marketing Rhode...
Unlike the much-ballyhooed and then immediately much-criticized “Cooler & Warmer” state tourism campaign, the R.I. Commerce Corp. has adopted a more understated approach to...
Saglio faces big challenges as Commerce RI’s new president
R.I. Commerce Corp. has a new leader, Jesse Saglio, and he recently sat down with PBN to talk about his expectations for the job.
What...
Commerce RI board of directors to consider $1M tax credit for...
PROVIDENCE – The R.I Commerce Corp. will consider a few projects and companies for tax incentives at a board of directors meeting Monday afternoon...
Budget recommends $21M in economic incentives
PROVIDENCE – The budget for state economic development incentives will shift somewhat in the upcoming fiscal year, under the budget introduced this week by...
Cambridge-based BioLabs examines expansion into R.I.
PROVIDENCE – A Cambridge, Mass.-based corporation that provides co-working laboratory space for startups in the life sciences industry is evaluating an expansion into Rhode...
Can the Ocean State finally become a hub for marine-based technology?
Anthony Baro has a unique ability to visualize what’s yet to exist.
It’s allowed him to design and patent inventions. It’s helped him grow E2SOL...
The state’s new approach to incentives has developers pining for a...
Time matters in historic renovation, and nowhere is that clearer than at the sprawling Pontiac Mills in Warwick.
The 19th-century textile mill was in a...