WBJ Staff

Isabel Tehan, a 2022 graduate of the Boston University master’s program in journalism and former intern at the Philadelphia Business Journal, has been hired by Worcester Business Journal as its newest staff writer.

The Main South Community Development Corporation in Worcester has received a $350,000 Community Empowerment and Reinvestment Grant from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development for the Main South Empowerment Project.

More than a third of WBJ readers believe the Central Massachusetts economy will decline in 2023.

In December 2022, the WBJ Editorial staff made 10 predictions of what this year’s headlines would bring. They were bold, and they were mostly wrong. We got three right. Here are our predictions and what actually happened.

Every December, the WBJ Editorial staff predicts possible news events for the coming year. Here are our predictions and why they will happen.

David Jordan will step down as president of Seven Hills Foundation of Worcester on June 30 after 28 years leading the organization.

Trivia question: What $160-million public facility opened in Worcester’s Canal District in 2021?

The Worcester Business Journal partnered with the nonprofit Worcester Regional Research Bureau on a new project examining how rent increases over the last decade have impacted the city and its businesses, as well as an historic look at how financial decisions rooted in racism 86 years ago have exacerbated the housing and workforce problems today.

Solutions like government money do help address these issues, but the real struggle is the effort to win over hearts and minds of businesspeople.

People are on the move at MutualOne Bank, Friendly House, and more.