Oct. 28, 2024 - WBJ's 35th Anniversary - Worcester Business Journal

Agriculture

🔒The Devens evolution: A three-decade transformation of the shuttered Army base is bearing fruit. What’s next for the budding innovation hub?

The U.S. military base known as Fort Devens closed in 1996, jettisoning more than 7,000 local military and civilian jobs.

Banking & Finance

🔒From the Publisher: A look back, a look ahead – 35 years of covering Central Mass. business news

As a 1979 Holy Cross graduate, I returned to Worcester in September of 1980 to start my publishing career in advertising sales.

Banking & Finance

🔒The legacy of ambition: Exploring the staying power of six of the region’s most enduring businesses

You can define success in myriad ways: holding your ground; uncompromising ambition; the relentless pursuit of excellence; steady as she goes; staying a step ahead. The one thing shared in common by the most-heralded and well-run companies Worcester Business Journal has chronicled over 35 years is a bit of all these things.

Education

🔒Photo trivia!!! Can you match these business leaders with their older photos?

WBJ has an extensive physical photo archive from the days when businesses sent in black-and-white photos of their executives and new hires.

Banking & Finance

🔒1989-2024: A timeline of the top Central Mass. business stories for the last 35 years

How do you whittle 35 years of headlining business news down to a couple thousand words and a few pages? You don't. But here, we take our best shot to highlight the companies, individuals, and moments that left a lasting impression.

Banking & Finance

🔒More diverse businesses: The complex journey toward diversifying Central Massachusetts business leadership

While Central Massachusetts business leaders have seen substantial diversification among small business owners in the past three decades, the same cannot be said for those among the area’s highest-paid.

Economy

🔒Feasting on nostalgia: Take a spin around the Central Mass. culinary scene alongside an admired food writer who has seen it all

"I’ll admit that writing about the Worcester County restaurant scene spanning 35 years has made my head spin," writes Barbara Houle.

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Where are they now? Gone but not forgotten, these Central Mass. difference-makers make their marks in new ways

As leaders, they ably represented two of Central Massachusetts’ longest-running institutions: each intricately tied to Isaiah Thomas. One turned his bequeathed library into the world’s preeminent repository of pre-20th-century print materials in what is now the United States. The other invoked the patriot printer’s name for its annual award to citizens who serve Worcester with distinction.

Real Estate

🔒The Galleria to CitySquare, a Worcester odyssey: A look at the rise, fall and resurgence of the city center

Like so many of the nation’s indoor shopping centers, the Galleria slowly died over the 20 years after it opened. Today, the former mall space is known as CitySquare.

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Crowd pleasers: Top tourist destinations have delivered big

Tracking Central Massachusetts tourist locations’ decisions and challenges – and how they handled them over the last three decades – is an exercise in business strategy. How do you get people to keep coming to your attraction?

Banking & Finance

🔒The company you keep … or don’t: Once synonymous with their communities, these Central Mass. businesses have moved on in distinct ways

As the economic climate has shifted over the decades, some Central Massachusetts companies have left the region.

Professional Services

🔒Slideshow: Our favorite covers from the last 35 years

They say you can't judge a book by its cover. But newspapers — what choice do you have? Here are some of the best, most interesting, most important, most impactful — and hopefully most enjoyable — Worcester Business Journal covers over the last 35 years, starting with the first one.

Hospitality

🔒Transforming communities: These three Central Mass. municipalities have taken different roads to revitalization

Central Massachusetts is a region that likes to wax nostalgic about bustling main streets and tight-knit mill communities. A lot has changed over the decades, with shifts in the way people do their shopping, the decline of traditional manufacturing, and the rise in tech industries. And our communities have shifted with the times.

Agriculture

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