Jan. 24, 2022 - Worcester Business Journal

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Worcester 300 trivia contest, part 2

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, […]

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Word: Saint Vincent’s priorities

Hospitality

🔒Q&A: Shrewsbury restaurateur seeks cheaper costs in Worcester

The owner of the Vietnamese restaurant in Shrewsbury has purchased a Shrewsbury Street property with his sisters, where they are hoping to find more space and cost savings.

News

🔒Editorial: The year of the entrepreneur

Last year was quite the year for new business startups in Central Massachusetts.

Opinion

🔒Opinion: Avoid the rent control trap

Greater Worcester is enjoying a residential boom, with housing demand in all areas outpacing the supply as more Massachusetts residents realize Central Massachusetts has greater affordability than they will ever find in Greater Boston.

Banking & Finance

Movers & Shakers for Jan. 24, 2022

DOUG BROWN, president of community hospitals and chief administrative officer for UMass Memorial Health in Worcester, was...

Advice

🔒101: Leveraging Data

Data can be used to find new clients, hike customer retention, improve service, laser-focus marketing efforts, predict trends, and more. Here are three ways you can enhance your company by leveraging data.

Advice

🔒Surviving the supply chain chaos

It’s easy to see how marketplace trends like our shared supply chain woes could have far-reaching long-term negative impacts on the U.S. economy, especially for the smallest players. But is this moment truly as hopeless as it seems?

Advice

🔒10 Things I know about … Providing better benefits for young employees

According to Forbes, Millennials stay at a job on average for two years and nine months. Companies...

Advice

🔒Up yours: How to bring your best game to life!

How do you ratchet up your game in this distracted, high-anxiety world? Well, you start by being true to yourself, knowing yourself, what you want and why, and develop the confidence and courage to make forward progress.

Energy

🔒Southbridge Innovation Center seeks to tie historic past to a future enticing to new residents, old residents, and businesses

Charles “Chip” Norton, director of Franklin Realty Advisors in Wellesley, has breathed new life into once boarded up buildings by developing them into Southbridge Innovation Center.

Government & Politics

🔒Dudley $45M mill redevelopment seeks to further anchor a revitalization

Over 200 years and several ownership changes later, the vacant 1864-era complex remaining today is on the brink of being redeveloped into loft apartments.

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Downsized: Shrinking developments around Polar Park raise concerns about the stadium payoff plan

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.

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Q&A: Greater Worcester Community Foundation’s new CEO lays out a vision of long-term equity and opportunity

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.

News

🔒From the editor: Why we give extra scrutiny to Polar Park

If a government is going to give $160 million toward enticing one single business, particularly a small company with less than 50 full-time employees operating seasonally, there needs to be transparency and accountability for that deal, to ensure it fulfills its promises to the public.

Government & Politics

Mass. DPH cautions against requiring PCR tests to return to work

In a Tuesday public health advisory, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health clarified its recommendations related to who and when people infected with and/or exposed to COVID-19 should undergo testing.

Jan. 24, 2022Edition

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