Tag: Elizabeth M. Tanner
R.I. Commerce launches Minority Business Accelerator Direct Grant Program
PROVIDENCE – Beginning Sept. 4, applications will be accepted for the state’s Minority Business Accelerator Direct Grant Program that will funnel $2 million of...
HUB SNUB: Can R.I.’s effort to build blue economy weather missing...
With a team of researchers spread coast to coast, Nereid Biomaterials had a few options when looking for a place to set up a...
Time to reset ambitious blue economy plans
The good news is the state is not giving up on becoming a regional ocean technology/blue economy hub. The bad is that the dream...
Construction commences on Quonset’s new offshore wind pier
NORTH KINGSTOWN – As Quonset Development Corp.'s Port of Davisville gears up to serve the region's offshore wind industry, construction kicked off Wednesday on...
R.I. Commerce issues $25M RFP for broadband upgrades in Jamestown, Newport,...
PROVIDENCE – Around 6,700 locations across Jamestown, Newport and Westerly are set to get broadband service improvements under a $25 million request for proposals...
Quonset Business Park announces total employment has grown to 14K-plus jobs
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Fifteen months after the business park hit 13,000 jobs, the Quonset Development Corp. on Tuesday announced that the park has hit...
Is transparency of open records legislation too taxing for R.I. officials?
An effort afoot to strengthen the state’s 45-year-old Access to Public Records Act has rekindled public debate over what the citizenry has a “right...
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...