Arts & Entertainment

Worcester artists collective El Salón and community radio station, WCUW, each received MassDevelopment Transformative Development Initiative (TDI) Creative Catalyst Grants for projects serving their communities.

The EcoTarium Museum of Science and Nature named attorney Joseph Bartulis, chair of the labor and employment law practice group at Worcester law firm Fletcher Tilton, as the Worcester museum’s new chair of the board of trustees.

Discovery Museum in Acton will have a new CEO in January, when current chief development officer Marie Beam steps into the role. Beam will take over the role held by Neil Gordon for 14 years.

Across the street from its first near-complete apartment building, Boston developer Madison Properties has begun a lease on the Polar Park parking garage that will pay the City of Worcester $4.3 million in base rent over the next 20 years.

Shop owner Sheri Putnam, together with her husband Bob Putnam and Design Coordinator Susan Krysinski, maintain an ever-rotating stock of farmhouse-styled merchandise that all but bursts off the shelves.

When the first recreational cannabis dispensaries in Massachusetts opened in November 2018, their parking lots assumed a festive air as people lined up, sometimes for hours, to get the newly legal product. Nearly five years later, legal cannabis has become an unremarkable part of the state economy.

Smaller cannabis companies are white labeling and collaborating as they try to survive a fierce pricing competition against large corporations in an increasingly saturated market.

As was the case for the first two years of debt payments, the saving grace for the current fiscal year 2023 and the next fiscal year 2024 is a $3-million property sale from 2021.

The Worcester Red Sox are partnering with Canal District and Green Island businesses to encourage fans to patronize businesses in the neighborhood by offering discounts and reward points.

Worcester Business Journal has been honored by the New England Newspaper & Press Association for coverage of diversity, equity, and inclusion issues, along with Polar Park, opinion commentary, editorial cartoons, and special sections on Worcester’s 300th anniversary and the 40 Under Forty awards.