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EMONEY ADVISORS will host a ribbon-cutting for its new offices at 100 Westminster St., as the company has hired over 100 employees since it opened in Providence in 2017. / PBN FILE PHOTO/STEPHANIE EWENS

EMoney Advisor to celebrate new Providence office and surpassing hiring benchmark

Financial Services 05/03/2019

PROVIDENCE – Since the company came to Providence in 2017, eMoney Advisor LLC has hired 110 employees at its Providence office, surpassing its threshold...

WHEN ITS COMPLETE, the $2.7 million "Super Studio" project will allow The Steel Yard to offer multipurpose community space year-round. / COURTESY STEEL YARD

Steel Yard holds groundbreaking, on target to finish $2.7M project by...

Nonprofit 05/03/2019

PROVIDENCE – The nonprofit industrial arts organization The Steel Yard held an official groundbreaking Thursday for its $2.7 million "Super Studio" project at its...

LUNCH PICKUP: Dweight Davidson, left, of Ashland, Mass., gets his lunch every day at Ocean State Sandwich on Westminster Street in Providence. Owner Eric Handwerger hands it to him in a plastic bag. Soon, Handwerger will have to eliminate his use of plastic bags, as Mayor Jorge O. Elorza has signed an ordinance approved by the City Council banning single-use plastic bags at retail locations in the city.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Providence latest to ban plastic bags

Focus 05/03/2019

Ocean State Sandwich Co., a downtown Providence restaurant, uses the ubiquitous, pale white, single-use plastic bags for most takeout customers. But owner Eric Handwerger and...

Elorza proposes $773M FY20 budget, denounces ‘extremism’ in national politics

Government 04/30/2019

PROVIDENCE – Mayor Jorge O. Elorza on Tuesday announced a proposed $772.6 million fiscal 2020 city budget, with a 3.2% spending increase above the...

PUBLIC HEARING: A public hearing before the Downtown Design Review Committee in Providence on the proposal for the Hope Point tower by developer Jason Fane, president of The Fane Organization. From left, Fane; his sister Daria Fane, vice president of The Fane Organization; and their architect, Gianni Ria, director of design, IBI Group. In the foreground recommending denial of the project is City Councilman Seth Yurdin.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Where’s the market for Hope Point?

Cover Story 04/26/2019

How high can the Hope Point tower climb? Its size has fueled doubters who say it won’t fit in, leading to extensive government review...

Elorza expected to sign ordinance banning plastic bags

Government 04/26/2019

PROVIDENCE – The City Council has approved an ordinance banning the use of plastic bags citywide, WPRI-TV CBS 12 reported. The revised ordinance follows a...

A BILL INTRODUCED by Senate President Dominick J. Ruggerio, D-Providence, that would give greater power to the state to direct projects on state-owned land, will now move to the Senate for a vote. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Ruggerio eyes speedier development

Hot Topic 04/19/2019

The power of cities and towns to block, or even shape, development they don’t like could be dramatically altered under an economic-development bill introduced...

PROVIDENCE IS expanding its electric dockless electric bike program called JUMP to 1,100 vehicles and is expanding the service area to cover the entire city. / PBN PHOTO/CHRIS BERGENHEIM

Providence expands e-bike fleet to cover entire city

Government 04/01/2019

PROVIDENCE – The JUMP bike share service will expand its fleet by 700 bikes to 1,100 electronic, dockless bikes and will expand its service...

WORK HAS BEGUN on the Gotham Greens greenhouse facility in Providence. Above is a rendering of the project. / COURTESY GOTHAM GREENS

Gotham Greens previews Providence greenhouse facility

Food & Agriculture 03/28/2019

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and Mayor Jorge O. Elorza welcomed a 110,000-square-foot greenhouse farm at 555 Harris Ave. for Gotham Greens Holdings...

FEEDING TIME: Jennifer Warmbold, lead keeper of Africa at the Roger Williams Park Zoo, prepares to feed lettuce to some of the zoo’s Masai giraffes. The zoo is in phase one of a three-phase, 20-year master plan to renovate and expand the Providence attraction.   / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Can a zoo boost the economy?

Cover Story 03/22/2019

Adults and kids stare, almost unblinking, at the sleek bodies of giant river otters gliding dreamily in figure eights through their tank. The human faces...

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