Hospitality

The Worcester Bravehearts played the 2019 baseball season knowing knowing their days in Worcester eventually may be numbered, or at least that they'll have to fight harder for fans once the Pawtucket Red Sox arrive. But the Bravehearts hit another high for attendance this year, landing sixth nationally among all collegiate summer league teams.

A couple months ago, I wrote an article about what comes next after you have experienced success. I still do not have an answer, but I have come to understand myself better.

Tree House Brewing Co. has made dozens of its coffee beers a regular option for retail sales and taproom tasting at its Charlton brewery. 

Wachusett Brewing Co. is adding another beer alternative its widening selection of alcoholic beverages: hard cider. 

Stix Noodle Bar, the ramen-inspired Worcester restaurant opened in The Grid last year, has closed to make way for a new concept.

Three men, including one owner of Shrewsbury Street cocktail bar Valentino’s, have purchased the Ballot Box Bar building in Worcester's Kelley Square for $650,000. 

Fresh off closing two concepts in November, Niche Hospitality Group is remaking its Railers Tavern in downtown Worcester into a new cocktail bar and restaurant, reviving the Still & Stir brand at the location. 

Bay State Brewing Co., currently brewing out of production breweries in Williamsburg and Leicester, will open a 10-barrel brewhouse and taproom at the Fidelity Bank Worcester Ice Center later this year. 

Taunton beer distributor Quality Beverage is acquiring Chicopee’s Williams Distributing to become the largest independent beer supplier in the state and the leading distributor of Anheuser-Bush InBev products.

The Worcester City Motel, long an eyesore on Route 9 in Shrewsbury near the Worcester line, has been sold to a Lexington property investment firm for nearly $2.3 million.