Devens

The Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts distributed $154,000 among 25 area nonprofits for community enrichment projects and operational effectiveness.

Each one of these winners is a gold mine in how to improve your business and your life.

CMC, U.S., Inc., an affiliate of Italian aerial lift manufacturer CMC s.r.l., has leased a 19,527-square-foot industrial space at 137 Barnum Road in Devens.

Jessica Strunkin, executive vice president at MassDevelopment and the leader of its Devens mixed-use community, has left her position, leaving the state agency to find a new de facto town manager.

Devens hydroponic grower Little Leaf Farms has hired a former vice president of sales from the California fruit company Dole as its new senior vice president of sales.

Devens-based Little Leaf Farms has secured $300 million in capital investment to help the hydroponic lettuce company further expand its operations. 

Three businesses in Central Massachusetts have been approved for economic incentive development programs by the state’s Economic Assistance Coordinating Council, and two additional Worcester County towns have been approved for the council’s vacant storefront program.

Central Massachusetts manufacturers must rise to meet demand and the challenges of the current crisis, using innovation and partners, according to a slate of experts at Worcester Business Journal's Central Mass Manufacturing Summit & Awards event Thursday at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.

Worcester Business Journal began listing the most influential people in the Central Massachusetts economy in 2013, using various iterations of the concept to arrive at the Power 50, which started in 2018.

The Power 50 may not necessarily hold the most power in the region, but they are the people who most effectively wielded their power to have an outsized influence on the economy and the community within the last year.