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Overview

Where can you find one of the nation’s largest concentrations of historic landmarks, over 400 miles of winding coastline, and America’s Renaissance City?

Rhode Island—the little state with a big impact:

  • Population = 1.6 million people
  • Providence voted:
    • Top 10 Places to Live
    • Top 50 Places to Work and do business in the US
    • The Best Place to Live and Work in the Northeast
  • Record-setting housing market: 28% increase in condo sales in 2005
  • Booming workforce: 15,000 net new jobs in the past 3 years
  • Strong health services, tourism and manufacturing industries
  • $22 billion in annual consumer spending
  • Home to 15 colleges and universities

We’re moving in the right direction. Come along.

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Sources: Survey of Buying Power, 2006; Census.gov 2006; RILiving.com 2006; Forbes Magazine 2003; MSN 2003; RIEDC.com, 2006

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