Overview
- The city will give $15,000 each to the Thayer District, Wickenden Area, and Wayland Square merchant associations, with Rhode Island Commerce and Brown University matching for $45,000 per group.
- The grants are intended to fund recovery efforts that stabilize foot traffic and reassure customers in districts hit by the manhunt’s economic slowdown.
- Providence will hire an external consultant to evaluate the city’s emergency response, including police actions, with officials seeking lessons for future incidents.
- Officials reported first responders arrived in under five minutes and that the last patient reached the ER 13 minutes after the first officer’s response.
- Police say they are tightening coordination with local universities, and Brown has added safety measures as students return for the new term.