A project designed to make it easier to travel around Worcester and promote the city is getting a $3-million funding boost from the city and state governments.
Five months after closing its doors and putting the building up for sale, the Higgins Armory Museum said it will host a public liquidation auction of some of its remaining assets in two weeks.
A Worcester group focused on innovation will co-host a forum Thursday night that will address how the intersection of arts and the STEM disciplines – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – can enhance creative innovation.
Is your business part of the region's creative economy? You may be surprised by the answer.
MetroWest and the Interstate 495 corridor were recently named part of the Massachusetts Creative Economy Network, which was launched earlier this month to help cities and towns across the state foster opportunities to enhance the creative industry, which includes art and architecture, among other businesses.
The hope, according to Helena Fruscio, the state's creative economy industry director, is that member regions will help their businesses and organizations find ways to collaborate and enrich the creative industry, which will ultimately provide a boost to the broader economy.
Developers of the planned New England Baseball Complex under construction at the junction of routes 9 and 20 in Northborough are watching a vision come to life.
And although the impetus for the project, in the works for several years, was a desire to create a true home base for the youth baseball team known as the New England Ruffnecks, it has the makings of a successful retail destination in its own right, according to Jason Kosow, chief financial officer at New England Baseball Enterprises, the developer.