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Worcester Business Journal has partnered with the Worcester Historical Museum to run a year-long trivia contest in celebration of the 300th anniversary of Worcester’s founding on June 14, 1722. Readers, […]

With the main development delayed yet again, the secondary one cut in half, and the third development proposal only committed to a small phase, the City might have to expand the tax district again to pay for its stadium debt.

Jim Ayres took the helm as CEO and president at the Greater Worcester Community Foundation at the start of the new year, replacing Barbara Fields, who resigned as head of the organization in March.

Boston Capital Development LLC, the firm constructing a six-phase development at the former Table Talk Pies headquarters, closed on the purchase of the development site on Wednesday for $4.55 million, according to a press release from NAI Glickman Kovago & Jacobs, the Worcester company brokering the sale.

Assumption University in Worcester broke ground on its new $2.6-million athletic facility on Jan. 9, funded by notable college football coach and alumnus Brian Kelly, according to a story on the college’s website.

The completion date for a 228-unit residential building next to the Polar Park baseball stadium in Worcester has been further pushed back for a third time, now more than two years from the original opening date, said president of developer Madison Properties, Denis Dowdle, in an interview Jan. 11.

After a rocky year, Worcester science museum The EcoTarium has announced Noreen Johnson Smith, an experienced community health leader, as its new president and CEO, according to a Thursday press release from the organization.

MassDevelopment has issued a $6 million tax-exempt bond on behalf of Lancaster nonprofit Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association, Inc., a portion of which will be used to replace artificial turf on five soccer fields in the town, as well as repair roads and pathways. 

The Worcester Business Journal editorial staff is seeking readers' ideas for this year's Power 50, WBJ's annual list of the most influential professionals in Central Massachusetts.

Plans for a gas station to fill a 1.5-acre plot of land on Quinsigamond Avenue in Worcester is slated to go before the zoning board on Monday, roughly a month after city residents shot down a similar proposal on Park Avenue.