Tag: R.I. Commerce Corp.
Editor’s Choice: Focusing on education
EDITOR’S CHOICE: Focusing on educationTHE SOUTHCOAST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will hold a discussion on education and how it’s important for the business community. Bristol...
Can data on ATM use aid tourism?
Although in his 29th year in the Newport tourism industry, Evan Smith is constantly looking for an edge to increase his understanding of who...
Online services, support website launched by R.I. Foundation
PROVIDENCE - As of Wednesday, local entrepreneurs and small business owners now have another online tool in their pocket to help launch their business...
Providence-Newport ferry service returns
PROVIDENCE – The Providence-Newport ferry service resumed Friday, just in time for Memorial Day weekend.
The ferry will run through Columbus Day weekend this year....
Five Questions With Pete Rumsey
Pete Rumsey | Director, Commerce RI Rhode Island Innovation Campus initiative
1. What is your responsibility as director of the innovation campus? I am...
Atlanta company leases space in Providence for data-products group
PROVIDENCE – Epiq Systems Inc. has occupied a 6,000-square-foot space at 1 Cedar St., according to MG Commercial Real Estate.
Epiq is establishing a data-products...
All 25 R.I. ‘Qualified Opportunity Zones’ approved by feds
PROVIDENCE – All 25 areas that Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and the R.I. Commerce Corp. submitted for designation as “Qualified Opportunity Zones” were approved...
Commerce RI authorizes $14.7M in incentives for companies’ expansion, relocation plans
PROVIDENCE – State officials authorized up to $14,655,000 in incentives Monday intended to attract two new companies to Rhode Island and encourage two existing...
$110M food-manufacturing facility proposed for Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE – A company affiliated with the massive Dutch food-industry retailer Ahold Delhaize is seeking nearly $2 million in state corporate incentives to locate...
Sixteen applicants are vying for shares of $20M Rhode Island hopes...
Is the future of Rhode Island employment in microgreens? Or is it in super-fast, quantum computers, innovative new materials or promising cancer treatments?
How does...