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Economic Development
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Developer seeks $250M demolition, renovation, expansion of Oxford affordable housing complex
June 16, 2023Boston developer Trinity Financial proposed a complete redevelopment of its New Orchard Hills Estates affordable housing complex in Oxford.
June 16, 2023
The Cove development in Worcester has awarded $7.7M to diverse subcontractors
June 15, 2023The 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.
June 15, 2023
Worcester to allocate $2M to United Way of Central Mass. for food insecurity
June 14, 2023The 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.
June 14, 2023
WinnDevelopment plans to buy, redevelop downtown Worcester’s Slater Building
June 12, 2023Boston development firm WinnCompanies has entered an agreement to purchase 390 Main St. in Worcester in order to create a mixed-use, mixed-income development.
June 12, 2023
Q&A: The vintage farmhouse vibe in Webster
Updated: June 12, 2023Shop owner Sheri Putnam, together with her husband Bob Putnam and Design Coordinator Susan Krysinski, maintain an ever-rotating stock of farmhouse-styled merchandise that all but bursts off the shelves.
Updated: June 12, 2023
Retail is king: How small cannabis businesses are surviving the plunging marijuana prices
Updated: June 12, 2023Smaller cannabis companies are white labeling and collaborating as they try to survive a fierce pricing competition against large corporations in an increasingly saturated market.
Updated: June 12, 2023
Cannabis comes of age: Five years in, regulators face a new set of issues
Updated: June 12, 2023When 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
Updated: June 12, 2023
Leominster bakery receives $1.25M MassDevelopment loan to update new location
June 8, 2023Bisousweet Confections will renovate and purchase equipment for its new 20,000-square-foot facility in Leominster with a $1.25 million loan from MassDevelopment.
June 8, 2023
Despite shortfalls, Worcester anticipates making Polar Park debt payments as promised
Updated: June 6, 2023As was the case for the first two years of debt payments, the saving grace for the current fiscal year 2023 and the next fiscal year 2024 is a $3-million property sale from 2021.
Updated: June 6, 2023
Historic block sold in Southbridge for $5.3M to Orlando investors
June 5, 2023The Whitford Building and the Edwards Block at 295 and 344 Main St. in Southbridge sold for $5.3 million to a group of Orlando investors on May 31.
June 5, 2023
Baba Sushi owner seeks to build a five-story apartment complex on Shrewsbury Street
June 1, 2023Developer and restauranteur Weidong “Wilson” Wang has proposed a new residential and commercial development on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester, at the site of a three-decker apartment building and parking lot.
June 1, 2023
Central Mass. life science companies receive $3.7M in state tax breaks
May 31, 2023Five life science companies with significant operations in Central Mass. were among the 43 firms across Massachusetts chosen to split $24.4 million in tax incentive awards.
May 31, 2023
On first anniversary, Clinton Area Chamber names first board of directors
May 31, 2023The Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce, an affiliate of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, named 12 local business leaders to its first board of directors.
May 31, 2023
Energy Summit: How to ease the economy off its addiction to fossil fuels
Updated: May 29, 2023When it comes to reaching the state’s renewable energy goals, cross-sector collaboration is the name of the game, according to speakers and panelists at WBJ’s 2023 Mass Energy Summit.
Updated: May 29, 2023
Electric utilities increase efforts to fill key jobs amid wave of generational retirements
Updated: May 29, 2023Ahead of a major expansion of the electric grid and in the midst of generational retirements, utilities are working to fill positions key to keeping the lights on and hitting the region’s renewable energy goals
Updated: May 29, 2023
Restaurant group sees possible minimum wage ballot question as threat
May 25, 2023Restaurateurs and other small business owners are wary of a looming "threat" of a 2024 ballot question that could raise the state's minimum wage beyond the $15 hourly rate that took effect in January.
May 25, 2023
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