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Continued DEI efforts by committed companies will yield high-profile hires and partnerships in 2023

Central Mass. colleges and universities are setting the table for more changes in 2023, after 2022 was already a year in transition.

Certain high-profile subsectors of the manufacturing industry, like marijuana and beer, will slow and search for new revenues.

The real estate market will see significant growth in 2023, as developers help solve a housing crisis and companies expand their footprint.

In December 2022, the WBJ Editorial staff made 10 predictions of what this year’s headlines would bring. They were bold, and they were mostly wrong. We got three right. Here are our predictions and what actually happened.

Every December, the WBJ Editorial staff predicts possible news events for the coming year. Here are our predictions and why they will happen.

At the end of 2019, no one could have predicted what the following year would bring: a worldwide pandemic, an economic shutdown, the highest unemployment since the Great Depression, massive government intervention, empty offices, and the start of a recovery.

Trivia question: What $160-million public facility opened in Worcester’s Canal District in 2021?

The Worcester Business Journal partnered with the nonprofit Worcester Regional Research Bureau on a new project examining how rent increases over the last decade have impacted the city and its businesses, as well as an historic look at how financial decisions rooted in racism 86 years ago have exacerbated the housing and workforce problems today.

This year marks the 10th anniversary for Bay State Brewing Co. The company started when Co-founder Chip Jarry began bringing beer he brewed to a hockey rink locker room.