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Banking & Finance

🔒2025 Economic Forecast survey: Central Mass. business leaders show less enthusiastic optimism

Central Massachusetts business leaders generally feel good about the economy, although they don’t feel great about it.

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Q&A: Executive behind redevelopment of Worcester Auditorium is more optimistic than ever

The Worcester Memorial Auditorium, colloquially known as the Aud, has sat vacant for the past 25 years.

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Making big boxes fun again: As large retail spaces become vacant, landlords are finding immersive businesses like mini golf and pickleball can keep the...

Converting big-box retail spaces has become increasingly necessary as digital retail impacts demand.

News

🔒Directory: Business and industrial parks in Central Mass.

This directory is a list of business and industrial park throughout Central Mass. including in Devens, Framingham, and Grafton.

Health Care

🔒Waiting for a recovery: The slowdown in the once-promising life sciences industry is hurting developments across Central Mass.

There have been some bright spots, but vacancies and empty pad sites remain.

Economy

🔒Weathering the perfect storm: Worcester’s slate of multifamily developments was hit hard in the last year, but a handful of projects were able to...

Some of Worcester’s proposed housing projects falling by the wayside isn’t helping the region’s housing crisis.

Banking & Finance

🔒Hot markets for residential: As Worcester’s small multifamily market cools, property owners see promise elsewhere

With high-potential inventory in Worcester drying up, investors in smaller multi-family properties are casting a wider net to find parcels with promise.

Banking & Finance

🔒A tale of two towers: The Mercantile Center and The Glass Tower’s efforts to become go-to downtown destinations

Worcester’s two tallest office buildings have had quite the wild ride over the past 10 years.

Government & Politics

🔒Suburban zombies: Falling demand for office space forces building owners to get creative

Overall, the amount of available space in suburban Central Massachusetts office markets is more than 90 football fields.

Economy

Mass. unemployment rose again in November

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts continued to rise in November for the second month in a row, yet still remained lower than the national average.

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