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New Subdivision Coming to Portsmouth

Photos represent similar homes built by KREG Realty Site plan The Portsmouth Planning Board recently approved the concept master plan for a 19-lot single-family home residential subdivision. The new subdivision will be located on a 12-acre parcel off East Main Road in Portsmouth, RI. KREG Realty, a Rhode Island-based real estate and management company, has teamed with DiPrete Engineering to design and construct the development. DiPrete Engineering is providing civil engineering, regulatory permitting, and surveying…
Sheryl Guglielmo
February 26, 2019
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Newport’s Innovative Business Hub is Nearing Completion

Photo Credit: John Klippel Photography Photo Credit: Newport Daily News Construction of Innovate Newport, a 34,000 square foot, three-story office space located on Broadway in Newport, RI, is nearing completion. Formerly the old Sheffield Elementary School, the building is being repurposed and transformed to provide high-tech office suites, co-work space, shared conference and huddle rooms, a café, and a large event space with the latest technology available. The $8 million project will create newly developed…
Sheryl Guglielmo
January 28, 2019
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DiPrete Designs Landscape for O’Hare Academic

The O’Hare Academic Center at Salve Regina University in Newport recently completed a $26 million building expansion and renovation to its landscape and hardscape around the building. The project, which added 23,000 square feet to the Center, includes indoor and outdoor dining areas as well as outdoor terraces overlooking the University’s oceanfront grounds. In collaboration with RGB Architects, DiPrete Engineering provided landscape design for the new patio and plaza area, a canopy entrance, parking area,…
Sheryl Guglielmo
June 11, 2018
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Sports Complex in Newport County Nearing Completion

Tiverton, RI’s new 187,000 square foot family and sports center, next to Route 24 in the Tiverton Industrial Park, is nearing completion. The facility, known as Longplex Family Fitness & Sports Center, is 80% complete with all site work done and steel fully erected. “We are just working on the interior now,” says Jim Long of Middletown, owner of the sports complex. “We are currently sealing the building with windows and doors.” The center will provide…
Sheryl Guglielmo
February 23, 2018
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The International Yacht Restoration School Opens New Building

The International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS) has officially opened its new building, The Brooks Building, at its Newport, RI campus, bringing the composite labs over from its second campus in Bristol, RI in hopes of doubling its enrollment to 200 students. IYRS is a private, non-profit school that focuses on training highly-skilled craftspeople and technicians for careers in a wide range of industries. After the school bought the half-acre lot in 2016, Wilson Architects teamed…
Sheryl Guglielmo
December 13, 2017