Tag: Vincent A. “buddy” Cianci Jr.
Getting the first taste of success
It was 25 years ago in the spring of 2000 at the International Association of Culinary Professionals conference in Providence when royalty of the...
Casting a MALL PALL: Despite uncertain future, Providence Place remains key...
Decades ago, city and state leaders eagerly jumped on a cross-country flight to secure Seattle-based retailer Nordstrom Inc. as an anchor tenant for Providence...
Former PWCVB founder, longtime HopeHealth board member Robbins dies at 91
PROVIDENCE – Arthur S. Robbins, a local business leader who co-founded the Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau and served four decades on HopeHealth’s...
SHADES OF GREEN: Can Providence’s working waterfront be both livable and...
Owning a home near the water isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. At least not for Linda Perri, who lives a mile west...
Hotel Dolce Villa sold for $2M, Providence developer plans apartments
PROVIDENCE – Moving on with life as a retiree, a Providence businessman recently parted ways with the Hotel Dolce Villa property at DePasquale Square on...
A routing interest: Planned downtown busing overhaul pits riders, other groups...
The ghosts of past public-transit plans have found their final resting place in a cardboard box in the office of Rhode Island Public Transit...
Trinity Rep to revive ‘Prince of Providence’ in June 2021
PROVIDENCE – The record-breaking theatrical production about Providence’s infamous former mayor will be given an encore.
Trinity Repertory Company will revive its production of “The...
F.R. paying for feckless leadership
Fall River Mayor Jasiel F. Correia II’s decision to take a leave of absence and suspend his reelection efforts is good for that city’s...
Reaching west remains a good plan
More than 11 years ago, Providence Business News published an Op-Ed piece written by Joseph R. Paolino Jr. and Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci Jr.,...
Can a self-described ‘pro[business]-growth progressive’ mayor boost investment in Providence?
The son of Guatemalan immigrants who settled in the West End of Providence, Mayor Jorge O. Elorza is a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps story: The first in...
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