The state is desperate to raise funds, especially now that the new Tiverton casino and sports gambling isn’t turning out to be the cash cow that everyone was hoping for. So Governor Raimondo created a new agency to fastpass all $100 million+ projects without requiring local approval in the bid to get Google to relocate to the state. They may have failed with the Google bid, but it looks like it actually caught a big fish with this Hilton project.