Tag: Economic Development
Despite some permitting improvements, developers often ‘going nowhere fast’ in Providence
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.
The opening of a March 2015 PBN story, titled “Why is it so hard to build in Providence?” sounds eerily familiar to those reading...
Mass. grants UMassD., SouthCoast Development Partnership $300K for blue economy corridor
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...
Partial floor collapse at Hope Artiste Village residential project injures three
PAWTUCKET – A partial floor collapse at a mill being converted to loft apartments left three construction workers injured on Monday, one critically.
The employees...
Given the departure of the Pawtucket Red Sox to Worcester, Mass.,...
With the reality of the departure of the Pawtucket Red Sox setting in, political leaders and small business owners are cassting about for ways...
PBN on WJAR-TV, Oct. 9, 2018
With the dream of a gleaming new ballpark gone, Pawtucket businesses look to city leaders for a boost.
Every week, PBN Editor Mark S. Murphy...
What ifs will not help Pawtucket
What might have been. That is a phrase that Pawtucket could be repeating over and over in the coming years as it looks to...
Can a self-described ‘pro[business]-growth progressive’ mayor boost investment in Providence?
The son of Guatemalan immigrants who settled in the West End of Providence, Mayor Jorge O. Elorza is a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps story: The first in...
Which of these areas of infrastructure investment do you think is...
The second Rhode Island Infrastructure Summit will take place on Sept. 17, and the topic it will take on is an important one for...
Carpionato Group unveils plans for Ortho Rhode Island office and surgical...
WARWICK – The Carpionato Group has the final approval of the city Planning Board to build a bio-medical hub – a 100,000-square-foot, three-story medical...