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Energy

🔒ConnectM continues expansion post-Nasdaq delisting, launches smart car manufacturer

Green tech company ConnectM Technology Solutions has continued to expand its presence into India with the creation of a new manufacturing hub, as the Marlborough-based firm attempts to rebound from being delisted from the Nasdaq stock market earlier this year.
Banking & Finance

🔒Fundraising at Milford Regional’s annual gala dropped 43% this year

For the first time in four years, Milford Regional Healthcare Foundation’s Mélange 2025 Gala and Live Auction failed to raise at least $1 million, generating $560,000 less than it did last year.
Diversity & Inclusion

🔒Fighting for immigrants: Attorneys are combating cuts, shifting policies, and burnout as demand rises in the second Trump Administration

Across Central Massachusetts, demand has risen for legal representation in asylum and removal proceedings, putting strain on the region’s limited resource pool of attorneys who are themselves facing burnout as they attempt to keep pace with Trump’s rotating door of policy changes.
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Manufacturing

🔒Hudson developer pitches 1M-sq.-ft. industrial complex on former Intel property

Exactly two years after National Development bought a 148-acre Hudson property formerly owned by Intel, the Newton-based developer has submitted plans to turn the lot into a nearly 1-million-square-foot industrial campus.
Economy

🔒Reports of Mass. unemployment rates in limbo due to government shutdown

Central Massachusetts will not receive its September or October unemployment rates this month due to the ongoing effects of the longest federal government shutdown in history.
Economy

🔒Worcester Regional Airport boosts incentive program to attract more airlines, expand destinations

In an effort to attract more airlines to serve local travelers, Worcester Regional Airport will now offer expanded incentives and benefits to carriers through its revamped air service incentives program.
Banking & Finance

Inflation expected to curb Mass. holiday spending

Even though inflation is cooling off, the cost of living remains high here and consumers are expected to curb spending this holiday season, the Retailers Association of Massachusetts said Wednesday.
Real Estate

🔒Waverly Development breaks ground on 181-unit, mixed-use building near Framingham train station

This is one of at least two apartment buildings planned for the area surrounding Framingham’s MBTA Commuter Rail stop.
Arts & Entertainment

WBJ launches first edition of We Do! wedding guide

We Do! has hit the digital newsstands, as Worcester Business Journal’s new wedding guide has launched its very first edition.

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Government & Politics

🔒House passes proposed bill to make assaulting a hospital worker a felony

A proposed bill aimed at protecting hospital employees from surging rates of workplace violence is one step closer to being signed into law as it has passed the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
News

🔒Historic building in Canal District, former site of Whiskey on Water, sold for $1.6M

The Goldberg Building in Worcester’s Canal District has been sold for $1.6 million to a familiar face in the neighborhood’s business scene.
Government & Politics

🔒Haxhiaj requests new multi-family developments be included in Worcester’s rental registry program

The rental registry program was implemented in 2024 and after being passed by the City Council in 2022.
Health Care

🔒Auxilium announces first group of Innovation Studio participants, inks partnership with Venture Forum

Each of the five participating startups will receive milestone-based funding of up to $100,000, among other support.
Manufacturing

L.S. Starrett Co. partners with Ohio firm to offer retro tool chests

The Starrett 200WCR tool chest is made of sapele hardwood construction and is true to the original design from the 1950s wherever possible. 
Arts & Entertainment

Advocates push back against online casino bill

Mark Stewart, with the National Association Against iGaming, told a cautionary tale of states that have already legalized internet gambling. Almost 40% of those who internet gamble in Pennsylvania – where it’s legal – were “pathological gamblers,” he said. Also, studies show Pennsylvania lost 3,700 casino workers since the state launched internet gambling.
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Latest Poll

Do you foresee seasonal sales improving or worsening compared to Q4 of last year?

The Retailers Association of Massachusetts (RAM) announced on Nov. 18 that the rate of inflation, while settling, is still likely to restrain consumer holiday spending. The National Retail Federation predicts holiday spending nationwide will increase by between 3.7% and 4.2% from last year, while RAM expects Massachusetts spending to only increase by 1.7%.

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Blackstone Valley

🔒Movers & Shakers for Nov. 17, 2025

Employees at Advantage Truck Group, Notre Dame Health Care, and ERA Key Realty Services are moving forward in their professional careers.
Central Mass. South

🔒Flexcon continues executive-level shakeup, as new COO to explore globalizing processes

Following his hiring, Ebin said the company is exploring globalizing some of its processes.
MetroWest

🔒Major developments in Worcester, Littleton granted $7M in state funding

The largest grant went toward funding infrastructure upgrades at the site of King Street Common in Littleton.
North County

🔒The next mission: Veteran business owners say more resources are needed for post-9/11 military vets

More businesses are being started and bought by military veterans, particularly as the wave of post-9/11 service members hit the civilian workforce. Still, veterans in Central Massachusetts are calling for more help.

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