Posts Tagged ‘economic-impact’
PBN Editorial: Rezone by all means, just do it right
Monday, April 6, 2009 14:52 No CommentsThis week’s Providence Business News has an excellent editorial noting the need to protect the Port of Providence’s working waterfront, first and foremost, for jobs: It is unfortunate that it has taken the severe contraction of Rhode Island’s economy to generate momentum for alternative uses for the state’s industrial waterfront. But it is about time! Narragansett Bay is an extraordinary, natural economic resource, in the same league as Puget Sound, Chesapeake Bay and the San Francis