Boylston is in line for its largest project yet, a FedEx distribution center that the town says will be a nearly $90-million investment. At about 350,000 square feet, it's nearly twice the size of a typical Walmart Supercenter.
At the time of Athol Hospital's merger with Heywood Healthcare, Athol had four days of cash on hand and one inpatient bed filled. Since then, it has swung to profitability.
VMware, the virtualization software tool that powers the cloud by making it possible for multiple operating systems and functions to run on the same virtualized computer, was widely viewed as the crown jewel of Dell's acquisition of EMC last year.
The T&G has faced the same challenges as practically any other newspaper in the country: declining revenues from print subscriptions and advertisers, with online readership growing but not fast enough to offset those other declines.
Almost eight months after Dell and EMC merged together, the new company is doing quite nicely. Fears of deep cuts as the company shakes out redundancies seem unfounded.
Since it was founded as the Thomas Babb Insurance Agency in 1917, the Knight-Dik Insurance Agency has seen plenty of changes in both its industry and Worcester over those 100 years, all of which have been spent in various offices along Main Street.
Commerce Bank branches in Worcester will keep their name and branding even after they are purchased by Berkshire Hills Bancorp, the parent company of Berkshire Bank.
MathWorks has become one of the region's largest and fastest-growing tech companies thanks to its products – as nondescript as it is – helping to run a seemingly endless list, from rockets to printing presses and artificial limbs to defense systems.
New England's second biggest city may not be New England's biggest city, but for a company from Western Massachusetts attempting to assert itself a dominant regional player in the Northeast and recruit the right mix of talent for the next generation of innovations in banking, Worcester is where you want to be.