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AN OPPORTUNE TIME: Pawtucket Mayor Donald R. Grebien speaks at the Slater Mill about the need to develop a comprehensive plan for redevelopment after the Pawtucket Red Sox announced the team was leaving the city. Seated at left is Gov. Gina M. Raimondo, who said the state would work to build tools to help Pawtucket and Central Falls, which will have a new transit center built less than a mile from the historic site.   / PBN FILE PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

With bus/train station coming, redevelopment focus for Pawtucket, Central Falls must...

Editorial and Op-Ed 11/09/2018

More than a decade after it was first discussed, ground was broken for a commuter train and bus station in Pawtucket earlier this month,...

WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? Did Gov. Gina M. Raimondo's economic policies help grow Rhode Island's economy or was the state's improving economic condition just the result of the region and nation recovering from the Great Recession? To a certain degree, the just-concluded election may offer one answer to that question. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

With the election now settled, do you think that Rhode Island...

Economy 11/09/2018

A major issue in any election is the economic health of the city/state/country that is holding the vote, and nowhere was the issue debated...

A WORK IN PROGRESS: Competing agencies and their often at-odds agendas continue to make development in Providence less robust than it might be.   / PBN FILE PHOTO/ PAMELA BHATIA

PBN on WJAR-TV, Oct. 29, 2018

Government 10/29/2018

Despite some permitting improvements, developers often “going nowhere fast” in Providence Every week, PBN Editor Mark S. Murphy appears on WJAR-TV NBC 10’s Coffee Break to...

BUSY DEVELOPER: Arnold “Buff” Chace is the managing partner for Cornish Associates LP, which has several ongoing projects in downtown Providence, including three historical buildings on Westminster Street that are being renovated into apartments/retail. Chace stands in front of one of the properties, The Peerless Building at 150 Union St.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Despite some permitting improvements, developers often ‘going nowhere fast’ in Providence

Business Services 10/26/2018

The developer of a riverfront hotel proposed for Providence gained initial approval from the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission a year ago, giving him clearance...

State, local regulations still hampering development in R.I.

Editorial and Op-Ed 10/26/2018

The opening of a March 2015 PBN story, titled “Why is it so hard to build in Providence?” sounds eerily familiar to those reading...

THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Dartmouth and the SouthCoast Development Partnership received a $300,000, three-year investment from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development to develop a "blue economy corridor."

Mass. grants UMassD., SouthCoast Development Partnership $300K for blue economy corridor

Education 10/23/2018

DARTMOUTH – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the SouthCoast Development Partnership received a $300,000, three-year state investment from the Mass. Executive Office of...

THE CONVERSION of a former mill in Pawtucket into loft apartments is a $39 million project of Urban Smart Growth. / COURTESY URBAN SMART GROWTH

Partial floor collapse at Hope Artiste Village residential project injures three

Economic Activity 10/22/2018

PAWTUCKET – A partial floor collapse at a mill being converted to loft apartments left three construction workers injured on Monday, one critically. The employees...