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Finance and development agency MassDevelopment has issued a $17-million tax-exempt bond on behalf of the Doctor Franklin Perkins School in Lancaster, for constructing a new middle school building and dormitory, according to a joint press release…
Fidelity Bank of Leominster will dedicate $45,000 over three years to the Massachusetts nonprofit Entrepreneurship for All, known as EforAll, which launched a Worcester branch on Oct. 1, the bank announced on Friday.
Restaurants are bringing in far less money for food and drink during the coronavirus pandemic – and it’s showing both the hit the industry has taken this year as well as the financial toll declining tax revenue will have on cities and towns.
When it comes to main streets in Central Massachusetts, town officials uniformly agree: A healthy main street is where foot traffic is king.
From the high-end Natick Mall to Solomon Pond Mall to the Mall at Whitney Field and elsewhere, retail plazas already struggling with closing chains are now facing an even more uncertain future because of the pandemic.
Colleges in New England were already on the lookout for an expected drop in high school-age graduates locally, and struggling in some cases to balance high costs with keeping education affordable for students.
Management behind Fitchburg’s 50/50 Diner received a $50,000 loan from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp., the economic development arm of the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce, the agency announced on Wednesday.
Tina Sbrega, the president and CEO of GFA Federal Credit Union, has been inducted into the Cooperative Credit Union Association after more than a decade leading the Gardner institution.
Rollstone Bank & Trust of Fitchburg reported $769.9 million in assets for its fiscal year ending June 30, a 12.1% increase from the previous year, according to a press release Wednesday detailing the bank’s annual meeting.
Pennsylvania marijuana company Ethos Cannabis opened its first recreational dispensary in Fitchburg on Halloween, colocated with a cultivation facility.
While shifting cultural norms in the business community have found hiring managers outwardly working toward hiring a more diverse staff, studies in the last few years by organizations like McKinsey & Co. and Regent University found women and people of color are promoted less frequently than their white male counterparts. This produces a dynamic where company leadership at many organizations remains dominated by white males even as the company's employees become more diversified.
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