Hospitality

🔒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.

Cannabis Control Commission chair troubled by predatory financing deals

The chairman of the Cannabis Control Commission raised concerns Thursday with what he said are "predatory financing deals" being offered to entrepreneurs and businesses from communities disproportionately harmed by the decades of marijuana prohibition and renewed the agency's call for the Legislature to make an alternate funding source available.

Boston Capital buys Table Talk site for $4.5M

Boston Capital Development LLC, the firm constructing a six-phase development at the former Table Talk Pies headquarters, closed on the purchase of the development site on Wednesday for $4.55 million, according to a press release from NAI Glickman Kovago & Jacobs, the Worcester company brokering the sale.

Worcester Regional Food Hub to move into Union Station with $1M renovation

The Worcester Regional Food Hub, an organization focused on strengthening agriculture and economic development, has received $1 million to expand into a new space at Worcester’s Union Station.

Canal District restaurateur buys three parcels around eatery for $1M

An entity registered to the owner of a restaurant in Worcester has purchased three parcels around his existing restaurants for just over $1 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

Tree House Brewing opens South Deerfield location

Tree House Brewing Co., headquartered in Charlton, announced the official opening of its new South Deerfield location on Thursday.

QCC board members exit for high-profile education, cannabis positions

Three members of Quinsigamond Community College’s board of trustees are leaving the board in 2022 to pursue outside leadership roles, the Worcester school announced Thursday.

Sushi restaurateur buys former Living Earth Market property in Worcester

About two years after announcing his business’s closure, Albert Maykel sold the plaza which formerly housed the Living Earth Market on Chandler Street in Worcester for $1.5 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

🔒Will the show go on? Entertainment venues hanging by a thread must overcome new obstacles

The coronavirus lockdowns began in March 2020 lasted longer for indoor performance venues than nearly every other type of business, cutting off the main revenue streams for these Central Massachusetts hubs for arts and culture until May 2021.