The Bryant University campus is going to be expanding with the addition of Parente's Restaurant on Douglas Pike in Smithfield ...

The university renovated the building, at a cost of $20 million, turning it into the Business Entrepreneurship Leadership Center, which university officials refer to as the BELC.

Bryant, located in Smithfield, R.I., is one of four Division I men's college basketball programs in Rhode Island, and the youngest, having begun its transition to the Division I ranks in 2009.

Original plans, part of Bryant University President Ross Gittell 's strategic plan, "Vision 2030," called for a new combined basketball arena and fieldhouse. In all, the new fieldhouse is 43,000 ...