PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Not far from John Mesrobian’s jewelry shop, a banner heralds the coming of yet another university building, a new arts and sciences center. “Experience Your Future Now,” says a sign ...

There’s something disconcerting about shopping for diamonds in an area that reeks of urine, or buying gold from a place surrounded with stores hawking $39 boom boxes, $2 T-shirts and “brand-name” ...

Pershing Square is the only park within Jewelry District boundaries, but it has everything an urban oasis should have -- trees, art, grass, sunshine, free concerts, fierce pigeons, a fountain, plenty ...

Glitz with a waterfront view — River House Apartments has debuted in the Providence Jewelry District. The development, located next to South Street Landing, is a modern structure in a historic, ...

Downtown’s amazing (but somewhat disjointed) growth could be getting one step closer to total cohesion thanks to the incoming arrival of an SBE-backed boutique hotel, right in the heart of the Jewelry ...

The university wants to build a new lab Other recent purchases include a $75 million, 174-unit apartment complex The purchases are tried to a plan to increase research Just two days before buying the ...

Steve Altinis spends much of his time sitting at his desk at Tievoli Jewelers in downtown Los Angeles, waiting to greet customers. But it can be a long wait these days. During one two-week stretch in ...

A jewelry business on 7th Street in Los Angeles was struck by vandals. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) On Tuesday afternoon in downtown Los Angeles, as another protest sparked by the police ...

The Jewelry District has long had a reputation for being insular and inscrutable, a forest of cavernous buildings that house hundreds of small shops and manufacturers, many of which are not open to ...

When Polly Wales, a classically trained jeweler from London, decided to pack up and move her entire workshop from the UK to Los Angeles in 2015, she and her partner, James, had only been to the city ...