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Why Providence?

Family shop or Fortune 500, there are infinite reasons Providence is the perfect place to start, locate and/or grow your business. From the diverse and educated workforce to the appeal of the environs, to the array of economic opportunities and incentives the City offers. Providence is an energizing combination of factors that all add up to your business and personal success.

What does Providence Have in Store for You?

City living or suburban style? Historic charm, mid-century comfort, urban chic? Cozy courtyards or expansive lawns, Providence offers it all within easy reach. Explore our neighborhoods.

Creative Capital

This city is alive with creative energy. It emanates from our educational institutions, our artistic communities, not to mention our innovative and pioneering businesses. Exhilarating, invigorating, electrifying. See it in the scenes around you, smell it in the air, hear it in the wind.

It doesn't just inspire creative passion, it also powers an economic engine. And it's all inventively, imaginatively, ingeniously Providence: the Creative Capital.

About the Size of RI

Being the smallest state in the USA means everything is conveniently close by. It also makes us a unique worldwide standard of measurement! Despite RI's diminutive size, there's no shortage of spectacular features and resources, all within easy reach.

• About the size of RI: data from the State
• RI Public Transit

An Endless Supply of Innovation

Providence is endowed with a wealth of higher education institutions, all in close proximity. They nourish creativity, imagination and invention, and serve as a renewable resource for business ideas and human capital.

• RI Colleges and Universities