With Potter Burns and Nathanael Greene Elementary Schools’ renovations completed, the city is now focusing on Winters Elementary School this year, as we continue to work with the city council, school department, and school committee to provide a 21st century learning environment for all of our students. By 2021, the city’s Pawtucket-Central Falls Commuter Rail Station and inter-modal transit hub opens for business, forging strong transportation ties to Providence, Boston, and throughout New England. Pawtucket also continues to invest in its infrastructure and schools to create and enhance the quality of life for its residents and to attract business investment. Seacoast Sweets, a chocolate manufacturing company from Massachusetts has come to our city because they found a place with rich history, plenty of accessibility, exciting business opportunities, and space to grow. Cybersecurity company, NeQter Labs, recently relocated from Middletown to downtown Pawtucket as it plans to grow and expand its reach. Two of Pawtucket’s newest businesses came to the city to operate out of historic mills. The Pawtucket Redevelopment Agency (PRA) also offers lending assistance to small businesses as well as the opportunity to work in partnership with developers with infrastructure improvements, brownfield loans and grants, and targeted site assembly. Since June of 2017, city officials have assisted 22 individuals and companies through the process of locating properties for these companies in the city and getting them through local regulatory and a few through Pawtucket Business Development Corporation’s loan processes. There have been many economic wins in the city. Inspired by the hardworking river that defines the region, Rhode Island Spirits features locally grown and foraged botanicals from the Blackstone Valley combined with organic spirits, crafting a range of gins, vodkas, and liqueurs that could come from nowhere else.Pawtucket is a great place to be and our track record shows it. Rhode Island Spirits Distillery & Tasting Room is located at the riverside in downtown Pawtucket near Tolman High School and the Armory Arts Center. As Pawtucket residents, we were thrilled to be able to open our new business in the city we live in and want to help grow.” “We've had significant moral support and practical assistance from everyone at City Hall from Mayor Grebien through the staff in all departments. “We couldn't have wished for a better place to open our business than Pawtucket,” said Larson. With a further commercial loan from Navigant Credit Union, they were able to renovate a mill space at 59 Blackstone Ave., and opened their doors in March. Owners Cathy Plourde & Kara Larson worked with Pawtucket's Economic Development staff when looking for a location, and received assistance from the Pawtucket Business Development Corporation loan program. Rhode Island Spirit’s riverside location and range of gins, vodkas, and liqueurs have already made it an attraction for visitors and residents of the city, and its products will soon be available in stores and restaurants statewide. PAWTUCKET – Rhode Island Spirits, the state’s newest distillery, will be holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate its grand opening on Jat 6:00 p.m.
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