Tag: Tax Incentives
Is the state making a good investment with its offer of...
The announcement earlier this month that the state was offering up to $20 million in tax incentives to General Dynamics Electric Boat to expand...
Tax incentives are back in the news with Commerce RI granting...
The R.I. Commerce Corp. has approved up to $9.2 million in incentives for Amgen Inc. to build a $165 million biomanufacturing plant in West...
Commerce RI approves incentives for new Amgen biomanufacturing facility
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Commerce Corp on Tuesday approved approximately $8.2 million in incentives with the possibility for up to $9.4 million in incentives for...
Providence TSA update needed to increase investment
For years Providence has had a justly earned reputation as one of the most difficult cities in which to develop real estate. Between costs,...
Progress has been made, more needed
Gov. Gina M. Raimondo’s Jan. 16 State of the State address was a chance to tout the advances made in the first three years...
R.I. needs high-paying jobs soon
Gov. Gina M. Raimondo’s administration has received a lot of heat for some of its economic-development initiatives, much of it based on the idea...
Raimondo says PawSox deal ‘not unreasonable’ but not a ‘top priority’
PROVIDENCE — Gov. Gina M. Raimondo said Monday that securing state incentives for a new ballpark for the Pawtucket Red Sox is not a...
Commerce RI approves $12.5M for new building, business incentives
PROVIDENCE — The state agency charged with attracting new business to Rhode Island agreed to award about $12.5 million in public incentives to three...
Is former Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee right to say tax incentives...
Former Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee is back in the public eye, opposing the spate of recent tax incentives that various state agencies have been...
Raimondo approach doing one thing Chafee’s didn’t: create jobs
One thing about former Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee – he’s consistent. Sort of like how he described himself during the presidential campaign, a “block...
