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  • 2024 Power 100: Elizabeth Cruz

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Cruz founded LABO in 2013 driven by a passion for community empowerment.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Debra Maddox

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Central Massachusetts born and educated, Debra Maddox has a firm hand on the pulse of the people she and her team serve at the Multicultural Wellness Center, founded in 2005.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Caroline Frankel

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    Caroline Frankel has been breaking down barriers in the legal Massachusetts cannabis industry since its beginning, and her latest breakthrough will make it easier for entrepreneurs and small businesses to find a foothold in an industry.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Travis Duda

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Travis Duda is leading something of a counterculture business movement in Worcester. Made up of like-minded Worcester company owners, professionals, and residents who want to network and collaborate, the No Jerks Network pokes a bit of fun at the

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Mike O’Kronley

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Ascend Elements, once a Worcester green technology startup that in the last two years has grown its workforce 500%, appears unstoppable as a leader in recycling elements of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Gloria Hall

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    Worcester’s art scene wouldn’t be what it is today, if not for the impact of Gloria Hall.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Danielle Spring and Julie Toupin-Spring

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Although it is a lesbian bar, Femme is open to everyone and seeks to be a safe space at a time when the LGBTQ+ community is increasingly under fire locally and nationally.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Khalil Guzman-Jerry

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Khalil Guzman-Jerry is a young artist with an agenda. He founded his company, theWorcesterWorkshop, for that purpose in 2020, offering interior and exterior murals, prints and paintings, and graphic clothing for sale.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham gives major Central Massachusetts employers the tools, motivation, and accountability they need to meet the promises they made following the 2020 police murder of George Floyd. She founded Promoting Good as she saw this as an

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Rachel Blessington

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    As outcomes for mothers and newborns worsen, Blessington is striving to revolutionize the way babies are born.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Allie Catlin

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Running a small dairy farm and creamery was something Allie Catlin and her co-owners had to learn, but seven years in, they seem to have the right idea.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Satya Mitra

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    As chairman of the board of the 2,100-member Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, tax guru, nonprofit leader, and biochemist, Satya Mitra’s influence in Worcester is decidedly multilayered.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Jon Weaver

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024

    MBI is the state’s oldest life sciences incubator, working with early stage companies from concept to clinical trials. Since 2000, the nonprofit fostered 188 companies, which have created more than 1,800 jobs and raised $1.4 billion.

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Amy Chase

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Chase may be reserved, but her impact as a trendsetter in the Central Massachusetts small business community cannot be overstated.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Adriana Vaccaro

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    After founding Culture Redesigned in 2018 in Shrewsbury, Adriana Vaccaro is at the forefront of a small, new wave of entrepreneurs and businesses in Central Mass. helping companies fill their job vacancies amid the ongoing workforce shortage while

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • WBJ names the Power 100, the most influential Central Mass. professionals in 2024

    Brad Kane Updated: April 29, 2024

    In this first-time expansion of the previous power players list, WBJ names the professionals in Central Massachusetts who most effectively wield their power to have an outsized influence on the economy and community.

    Brad Kane Updated: April 29, 2024

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Should the state and local governments do more to support office-into-residential conversions?
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Poll Description

Rising rates of homelessness are affecting Central MA and the state as a whole, leaving cities and towns without enough shelters or public housing to assist those in need. A recent bandaid to the mounting crisis has been to turn empty office spaces into free or subsidized housing, many buildings being left empty due to the post-COVID rise in remote work. Hurdles to office conversions can be daunting, with infrastructure issues making residential building codes difficult to meet, and heightened construction and labor costs adding to the expense.