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Real Estate

🔒Long-dormant Spag’s warehouse planned to be part of major Shrewsbury development

A former warehouse utilized by defunct discount department store Spag’s makes up part of a large Shrewsbury site proposed for major redevelopment.  Spagtacular LLC, an entity managed by Shrewsbury-based developer Sam Adams, is proposing constructing a development on 25.5 acres of land at the intersection of Route 9 and Maple...
Government & Politics

🔒Developer plans 197 apartments near Polar Park on Madison Properties’ land

The project falls inside Worcester’s district improvement financing area around Polar Park.
Arts & Entertainment

Fallon Health extends corporate sponsorship of WooSox

Seven years after the Worcester Red Sox secured Fallon Health as a founding sponsor in September 2018, the baseball team has signed a three-year partnership extension with the Worcester-based healthcare insurer.
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Banking & Finance

🔒Cornerstone Bank completes $2.4B merger with Athol Savings

Cornerstone Bank and Athol Savings Bank signed off in 2025 by finalizing their anticipated merger, with the latter officially becoming a division of the Worcester-based institution, effective Dec. 31.
Nonprofits

After more than two centuries of ownership, West Boylston church sold for $1.2M

The site used for worship since the 1790s will continue to be used as a church under its new ownership.
Government & Politics

🔒DPH finds Saint Vincent back in compliance following staffing investigation

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has deemed Saint Vincent Hospital back in compliance with staffing requirements, after an investigation found the Worcester hospital failed to maintain a mandatory nurse-to-patient ratio for an organ-donating patient back in April.
Banking & Finance

🔒Braintree firm buys 114-unit housing complex in Ayer for $32M, working with tenants to preserve housing at site as affordable

A New Hampshire-based firm wanted to redevelop the site, but residents pushed back.
News

Working group targets meal prep, overtime for cuts from $1.7B personal care attendant program

Charlie Carr, legislative liaison for the Disability Policy Consortium and a working group member, said the proposed savings reflect an effort to make limited reductions without undermining the core of the program.
Government & Politics

Cannabis reform proposals set to be negotiated next year

A six-person conference committee is now fully in place and ready in the new year to begin hashing out final details of Massachusetts legislation overhauling cannabis laws.

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Education

🔒Eight months after UMass Chan layoffs, NIH to review delayed funding applications

The year-long battle over National Institutes of Health funding, which caused UMass Chan Medical School to lay off employees in April, reached a new milestone on Tuesday.
Government & Politics

Ballot initiatives on unionization, limiting state taxes clear important milestone

Nine ballot initiatives are now cleared to advance toward the 2026 ballot. Two more proposals to address residential zoning laws and create a Nature For All Fund still need to be certified.
Government & Politics

Lawmakers seek more transparency on funding for ballot initiatives

Facing a potentially crowded and costly 2026 ballot cycle, lawmakers advanced legislation to tighten disclosure rules for ballot question campaigns and reveal who’s funding them.
Health Care

State receives $162M from feds for rural health

Asked how Massachusetts plans to deploy the new funds, a spokesperson for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services said state officials "just received the notice" and are reviewing it.
Agriculture

Cannabis growers using less than 70% of licensed cultivation space could be downgraded to lower limits

If the Cannabis Control Commission determines that a licensee has sold less than 70% of what the licensee produced during a review period, then the commission may reduce the licensee's maximum canopy to a lower tier, according to a CCC memo.
Real Estate

🔒Spencer townhouses sold for $4M to Vermont firm

An 18-unit, townhouse-style apartment property in Spencer has been purchased by a Vermont-based firm for $4.03 million. The property, located at 0 Townhouse Court off...
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Blackstone Valley

🔒WBJ’s 10 bold predictions for 2026

UMass Memorial Health will absorb another hospital, and nine other predictions.
Central Mass. South

🔒How did WBJ do with its bold predictions for 2025?

CCC was not placed into receivership, no hospital replaced Nashoba Valley Medical Center, and the results of eight other bold predictions for 2025.
MetroWest

🔒EcoForecast survey: For first time since 2020, WBJ readers say the economy is in worse condition than a year ago

Despite the pessimistic results about 2025, the plurality of respondents see improvement in 2026.
North County

🔒2026 Economic Forecast: Real estate’s opportunity among uncertainty

Housing conversions, technology development, and a possible housing reset are all on the table for 2026.

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