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Worcester artists collective El Salón and community radio station, WCUW, each received MassDevelopment Transformative Development Initiative (TDI) Creative Catalyst Grants for projects serving their communities.
The redevelopment of Downtown Fitchburg continues with the completion of a 44-unit mixed-income development at 10 Main St. The project also has 8,400 square-feet of commercial space on the first floor.
An affiliate of Boston developer Boghos Properties purchased parcels of land totaling $3.6 million to build an approved 176-unit mixed-use development in Framingham.
The Fitchburg Public Library will receive $1.5 million from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners to help offset rising construction costs on the $40-million construction and renovation project.
The first half of 2023 was a difficult one for home buyers and for real estate agents as single-family home sales cratered and home prices plateaued high above pre-COVID levels.
June is usually the second- or third-biggest month of the year for tax collections, and a mid-month report shows receipts outpacing last year's pace over the first roughly two weeks of the month.
The payrolls of Asian-owned businesses in Massachusetts grew from $1.2 billion to nearly $4 billion over the 18-year period ending in 2020, according to a new report that collates information from national and local sources.
MetroWest Nonprofit Network in Framingham has named Leah Parker-Moldover as its new executive director. She will begin her tenure at the organization on Thursday.
Count dozens of K-12 school superintendents among those who want lawmakers to make a universal meals program permanent, not just extend it for another year.
The local unemployment rate in Central Massachusetts communities remained low in May, including falling further from April figures in the North Worcester County region.
The Massachusetts unemployment rate for May fell to 2.8%, down 0.3 of a percentage point from April. This is the third month in a row that the unemployment rate has decreased, and the first time it has dipped below the 3.0% percent mark in 2023,
Boston developer Trinity Financial proposed a complete redevelopment of its New Orchard Hills Estates affordable housing complex in Oxford.
The Cove, a seven-story development abutting Polar Park in Worcester, has awarded 18% of its contracts so far going to subcontractors run by women or people of color.
The City of Worcester is set to allocate $2 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to the United Way of Central Massachusetts, which the nonprofit will use to support its food insecurity programs.
Boston development firm WinnCompanies has entered an agreement to purchase 390 Main St. in Worcester in order to create a mixed-use, mixed-income development.
When the first recreational cannabis dispensaries in Massachusetts opened in November 2018, their parking lots assumed a festive air as people lined up, sometimes for hours, to get the newly legal product. Nearly five years later, legal cannabis has