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Coventry resident recruits 300 for virtual Black National Anthem cover

With remote work trending upward, South County real estate market is hotter than ever

The Rhode Island Supreme Court has partly reversed a Superior Court decision in developer Vincent Coccoli’s $22-million lawsuit against the Town of Scituate, involving Coccoli’s failed efforts to redevelop the historical Hope Mill.

The R.I. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday from one developer who says his efforts to redevelop the historic Scituate site date to 2002. In the other case, Paramount Development Group calls a zoning board denial of its $52M plan “a transparent attempt to prevent development and affordable housing in the town of Scituate,” a charge the town denies.

Sherwood Village Mobile Home Park is now officially owned by the residents and more than 170 homeowners that reside there. This week neighbors celebrated the $7.5 million purchase that now makes the village off Hill Farm Road a resident-owned Cooperative Corporation.

House sales increased in Rhode Island for the fifth consecutive year in 2017, creating a “hot” market despite falling inventory, according to the Rhode Island Association of Realtors.

Several Rhode Island towns are facing negative impacts after being notified in late July that many of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) applications for local programs and agencies will not receive the funding they typically see. Locally, six social services programs applied for a total of $136,702 to fund several projects in the area, and after the meeting in late July, East Greenwich, along with many other towns across the state, were notified that none of their applications from the Plan Year 2016 will receive funding.