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Bristol County Savings Bank opens new lending center in Providence

Financial Services 11/10/2025

PROVIDENCE – Bristol County Savings Bank has opened a new Community Lending Center on Broad Street, marking its first major expansion in the city...

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Print Edition 11/07/2025

1. Cranston building containing beer distributor sells for $8.2M POSTED ONLINE: OCT. 24. A 107,647-square-foot commercial/industrial building that’s home to beer distributor McLaughlin &...

One Neighborhood Builders gets $3M loan from Rhode Island Foundation for...

Economic Activity 10/01/2025

EAST PROVIDENCE – One Neighborhood Builders has secured a $3 million loan from the Rhode Island Foundation for the first phase of its Center...

STRATEGIC PLANNING: From left, Half Street Group team members Nadia Engenheiro, digital and social media strategist; Account Director Hillary Lima; senior account executive Chelsea DeCesare; and account executive Kerri Tallman discuss a marketing plan at the public relations firm’s Providence office. PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Half Street Group building a brand for themselves, and others

Business Services 09/26/2025

PBN 2025 FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES $250,000 TO $2.5 MILLION 1. Half Street Group CEO (or equivalent): Mike Raia, founder and president 2024 Revenue: $812,956 2022 Revenue: $390,194 Revenue growth:...

LEGISLATION signed into law by Gov. Daniel J. McKee on June 27 has created a statewide "housing land bank" operated by the R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. that will accept, hold, transfer and sell properties for redevelopment into housing. / PBN FILE PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

R.I.’s new ‘housing land bank’ will set sights on vacant, unused...

Editor's Choice 07/11/2025

Rhode Island has added yet another tool in its battle to ease the shortage of housing in the state, creating a "housing land bank"...

Officials break ground on Broad Street Homes project in Central Falls

Government 05/30/2025

CENTRAL FALLS – Local elected officials and affordable-housing development leaders on Friday formally broke ground on One Neighborhood Builders’ $26 million Broad Street Homes...

‘Biz Bodega’ operator Innovation Studio files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy

Economic Activity 04/21/2025

PROVIDENCE – Innovation Studio, the Boston-based organization that oversaw programming at Olneyville's "Biz Bodega" small business resource center, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Biz...

HELPING HAND: Foster Forward Executive Director Lisa Guillette, center with flowers, poses with her family after receiving the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2024 Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment for her work supporting teenagers and young adults in the foster care system.  COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

Guillette wins Rhode Island Foundation’s Murray Family Prize

In Their Own Words 01/17/2025

LISA GUILLETTE, executive director of East Providence-based nonprofit Foster Forward, was recently presented with the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2024 Murray Family Prize for Community...

PETER H. CHAPMAN has been named ONE Neighborhood Builders' new CEO and president. / COURTESY ONE NEIGHBORHOOD BUILDERS

ONE Neighborhood Builders names Chapman new CEO, president

Housing 01/08/2025

PROVIDENCE – Peter H. Chapman, a community and economic development leader and strategist who has leveraged billions in investments in several major U.S. cities...