Tag: Grow Smart Rhode Island
For small businesses, the uphill climb was never-ending
For Rhode Island’s small businesses, the last five years have demanded constant adjustment.
Pandemic shutdowns in early 2020, rising wages, labor shortages and new infrastructure...
Wolf to step down from Grow Smart Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE – Grow Smart Rhode Island Executive Director Scott Wolf will be stepping down from the nonprofit organization he helped lead for close to...
Shortage of planners impeding municipalities
Tiverton’s town planner resigned in June 2022, and it’s a job that still remains vacant more than three years later.
It’s a glaring gap as...
THE ‘AMAZON EFFECT’: Warehouse looms over Johnston, but will it fulfill...
Making way for Amazon.com Inc. has been no easy feat for the town of Johnston since the e-commerce giant opened a 3.8 million-square-foot fulfillment...
Panel discussion to explore why it’s so difficult now to ‘get...
PROVIDENCE – Marc J. Dunkelman, author of “Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress and How to Bring It Back,” will lead a panel discussion on Wednesday...
Most-read stories on PBN.com, July 2025
1. Providence condo sells for $1.62M in highest loft sale ever recorded in city POSTED ONLINE: July 11 A 3,100-square-foot residential condominium in Providence...
A new attempt to breathe life into R.I.’s main streets
The colloquial “Main Streets” are vital for community cohesion and small-business growth. Yet, these areas don’t develop naturally, and many local commercial corridors struggle...
BUILDING BONDS: New housing, higher ed facilities top $343M in bond...
In Rhode Island, $107,452 won’t get residents very far in the housing market.
That figure – the state’s median household income – doesn’t support an...
CHASING WEALTH: Incomes in some R.I. communities have climbed in last...
Kevin Breene’s family history in West Greenwich goes back 11 generations, beginning when the rural hamlet had a few hundred residents and was one...
RIPTA holds first public workshop on transit hub relocation
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Public Transit Authority on Monday held its first "interactive" and “family-friendly’ public workshop at the Amica Mutual Pavilion on the...
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