Dec. 26, 2022Edition

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

Residential development will continue its upward trajectory in 2023, as prices will remain high.

The energy industry is moving quickly toward development of environmentally friendly technologies

The COVID pandemic exacerbated the long-held problems in health care. Things won’t get better in 2023.

Continued DEI efforts by committed companies will yield high-profile hires and partnerships in 2023

Central Mass. colleges and universities are setting the table for more changes in 2023, after 2022 was already a year in transition.

Certain high-profile subsectors of the manufacturing industry, like marijuana and beer, will slow and search for new revenues.

The real estate market will see significant growth in 2023, as developers help solve a housing crisis and companies expand their footprint.

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.

At the end of 2019, no one could have predicted what the following year would bring: a worldwide pandemic, an economic shutdown, the highest unemployment since the Great Depression, massive government intervention, empty offices, and the start of a recovery.