Tag: Grow Smart Rhode Island
GrowSmart RI panel discusses Pawtucket Red Sox ballpark
PROVIDENCE – If a new Pawtucket Red Sox ballpark was seen by the public as an economic development project for the state, and not...
GrowSmartRI to kick off biennial Power of Place Summit March...
PROVIDENCE – Grow Smart Rhode Island kicks off its biennial Power of Place Summit on Thursday, March 29, with a series of speakers at...
Grow Smart Rhode Island announces 2018 Smart Growth award winners
PROVIDENCE – Grow Smart Rhode Island has announced the winners of its 2018 Smart Growth Awards.
The awards – which Grow Smart announced Tuesday –...
Curbs to historic tax credit could hurt R.I.
A proposed change to the federal tax code could have outsized impact on Rhode Island, where historic but dilapidated mill buildings and commercial structures...
Grow Smart Rhode Island to host workshop on active transportation
WOONSOCKET – Grow Smart Rhode Island is hosting a workshop Nov. 13 that will cite the examples of Newport and Woonsocket in encouraging active...
Commuter rail key to R.I. growth
Mary MacDonald’s Sept. 1, 2017 article, “The state’s 2012 bet on commuter-rail service has yet to pay off. Is it time to privatize?” is...
Living to fight another day on historic tax credits
Historic-preservation advocates had hoped for more to celebrate this past week.
Yes, the life of the state’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit program appeared to have...
The state’s new approach to incentives has developers pining for a...
Time matters in historic renovation, and nowhere is that clearer than at the sprawling Pontiac Mills in Warwick.
The 19th-century textile mill was in a...
The state’s new approach to incentives has developers pining for a...
Time matters in historic renovation, and nowhere is that clearer than at the sprawling Pontiac Mills in Warwick.
The 19th-century textile mill was in a...
Buck up Rhode Island, you deserve to love yourself
Scott Wolf | Grow Smart Rhode Island executive director
Rhode Island has vast, untapped potential. But to achieve it we must overcome a chronic problem...