Tag: Elizabeth M. Tanner
R.I. Site Readiness Program has $1.4M to spend; April 19 deadline...
(Editor’s note: This is the second in an occasional series focused on questions from Providence Business News readers for R.I. Commerce Corp. Secretary Elizabeth...
R.I.’s new tourism campaign showcases state as ‘All That’
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island is all people, all cuisine, all outdoors, all history, say state tourism leaders.
And a new statewide tourism slogan that's been...
Panel: ‘The hard part is figuring out what’s next’
A benefit of living in a state with the population of a large American city is its accessibility. What in New York or Los...
PBN summit: A soft landing for economy that’s still ‘fragile underneath’
PROVIDENCE – The likelihood of a recession, once thought inevitable, will be forestalled or fail to materialize, at least within the next 12 to...
PBN debuts 2024 Book of Lists
PROVIDENCE – More than 200 business and nonprofit representatives spent Thursday evening at the Graduate Providence networking with one another, as well as obtaining...
Ocean Tech Hub seeking project concept proposals
PROVIDENCE – A federally designated blue tech hub encompassing Rhode Island and Massachusetts has issued its first call for ocean technology projects.
The Ocean Tech...
R.I. business leaders launch coalition to support underserved entrepreneurs
EAST PROVIDENCE – When Sterling Spellman and her husband, Russell, launched Incred-A-Bowl Food Co. in 2013, they started with a $25,000 loan from R.I....
R.I.’s dreary business-climate rep proving tough to shake
David Levesque says he’s ready to expand his coffee shop business, but he cringes at the thought of what he’ll have to go through...
State develops strategic plan for offshore wind jobs, investment
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee’s administration on Monday released details on the development of Rhode Island’s strategic plan to develop the state’s offshore...
X Corp. licensing in R.I. part of a bigger tech push?
The "currency transmitter" license that Rhode Island recently issued to the company formerly known as Twitter Inc. is a common authorization in business dealings,...