Nov. 28, 2022 - Worcester Business Journal

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Worcester 300 trivia contest, part 19: The El

Trivia question: What was the formal name of The El?

Economy

🔒Q&A: The legacy of Sena’s Barbershop

Brenda Tomasetta closed her father's Sena's Barbershop on Grafton Hill and has now moved and joined forces with Kelly Collins at her barbershop, Studio C Hair Artistry, on Massasoit Road in Worcester.

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Words: Hudson warehouse

News

🔒Editorial: More Worcester developments becoming reality

Increased values make renting or purchasing a commercial building more expensive, and rising housing costs make purchasing or renting less affordable, driving some long-time community residents and businesses out of the city.

Opinion

🔒Viewpoint: Helping nature, helping ourselves

We must recognize and embrace the power of nature-based solutions to combat many climate challenges.

Banking & Finance

Movers & Shakers for Nov. 28, 2022

Herlihy Insurance Group, Workers Credit Union, Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts, and UMass Memorial Health are among the Central Mass. organizations with recent hires and promotions.

Advice

🔒101: How to make a tough decision

What happens when it comes time to make a monumental choice to change the course of how your company operates for years to come?

Advice

🔒Company culture – does it really matter?

My dream was to create a culture where our team would want to be at work, together with each other, not dread coming to work.

Advice

🔒10 Things I know about … Being a female leader in agriculture and the public sector

You can impact colleagues, customers, and individuals’ lives on a daily basis. Be conscious of the power your decisions hold.

Advice

🔒Our silence is deafening

How do we practice civil discourse, empathy, and stand up and stand out when it’s uncomfortable?

Banking & Finance

🔒Passing costs onto customers: Restaurants’ solution to rising credit card usage

The Massachusetts Restaurant Association wants to give restaurants and other small businesses the opportunity to push some of the credit card costs for restaurants onto consumers.

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Paying Polar Park’s debt: For the second year, underwhelming tax collections were saved by a public property sale

When Polar Park was first announced in August 2018, Worcester's pay-for-itself plan for it was centered around six proposed buildings from Boston developer Madison Properties. But that development has since significantly shrunk in size and been delayed.

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒The next president: Grace Wang has spent a career focused on innovation, academics, and impact

“Grace” Jinliu Wang, who on Nov. 7 was selected by WPI to be its 17th president, believes in and embodies this concept of combining theory and practice to fuel innovation and to apply that innovation to have maximum impact on the world.

Banking & Finance

🔒Avoiding startup costs: Diddy’s foray in Central Mass. cannabis

By purchasing well-established marijuana stores, Sean "Diddy" Combs is buying into already profitable establishments with a proven track record. His investment creates the first minority-owned, vertically-integrated multi-state cannabis operator in America.

Nov. 28, 2022Edition

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