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Economic Development
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Unemployment ticks slightly upwards across Mass.
March 24, 2023An estimated 3,000 jobs were gained across the state in February, as compared to January’s revised gain of 8,900 jobs, according to a Friday press release from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Management.
March 24, 2023
NCMDC loans $100K as Worcester homecare agency prepares to add 65 positions
March 23, 2023The North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. loaned $100,000 to DivineTouch Home Health Care in Worcester to support the agency in becoming a certified homecare agency by the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Facility Licensure and
March 23, 2023
Downtown Worcester BID names local entrepreneur as new program director
March 21, 2023The Downtown Worcester Business Improvement District named Electric Haze owner Victoria Mariano as its new program director.
March 21, 2023
Kennedy Community Health Center to open new 30K-sq.-ft. facility in April
March 21, 2023The Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center’s new 605 Lincoln Street facility is slated to open to patients the first week of April, aiming to expand health equity in Worcester.
March 21, 2023
NCMDC loans Leominster beauty salon $13K for equipment and operating costs
March 21, 2023The North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. in Fitchburg approved a $13,000 loan to Beauty Empire, a Leominster beauty salon owned by Nadia Ruiz.
March 21, 2023
Eviction prevention policy set to expire March 31
March 21, 2023More than one hundred organizations endorsed a call Monday for lawmakers to extend a pandemic-era eviction prevention policy, warning that the looming March 31 expiration will displace Bay Staters and stymie other efforts to keep people in their
March 21, 2023
Small businesses run by people of color struggle to find financing as VCs' priorities have shifted away from providing multicultural opportunities
Updated: March 20, 2023BIPOC-owned startups seeking out larger investments have come up short, in large part because the deck is stacked against them.
Updated: March 20, 2023
A home for art and community: New owners of The White Room make it their own
Updated: March 20, 2023The White Room has made a post-COVID comeback over the past year and is a nexus of cultural and social life in Worcester.
Updated: March 20, 2023
Priced out, activists appeal for urgency on housing
March 17, 2023Activists want Healey and the Legislature to double public housing authority subsidies to $184 million next year, one of several requests they rolled out as the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization kicked off a new housing justice campaign aiming
March 17, 2023
Unemployment rate rises almost full percentage point across Central Mass.
March 14, 2023Unemployment rates across Central Massachusetts increased at the start of this year, with January unemployment higher in all three of the region’s metropolitan areas tracked by the state.
March 14, 2023
The Menkiti Group names new president
March 14, 2023Washington D.C.-based developer The Menkiti Group, which has invested heavily in downtown Worcester, has named David Roodberg as president of the firm.
March 14, 2023
Shaw’s plaza redevelopment goes to Ashland planning board amid Town revitalization push
March 9, 2023Developers have proposed a mixed-use development at an Ashland shopping plaza anchored by a Shaw’s supermarket at 301 Pond St.
March 9, 2023
Worcester’s Pleasant Street businesses can get up to $20K to improve storefronts
March 9, 2023Storefronts along Pleasant Street in Worcester may soon be getting a facelift with the help of MassDevelopment’s Transformative Development Initiative.
March 9, 2023
Poll shows support for local option rent control
March 8, 2023Nearly three decades after Massachusetts voters banned the policy, a majority of likely voters here would support a ballot question once again allowing cities and towns to implement rent control, a new poll found.
March 8, 2023
Healey plan divides oversight of development projects
March 7, 2023Gov. Maura Healey wants to separate housing and economic development in the state's bureaucracy, mostly to give housing production the enhanced focus she says it desperately needs.
March 7, 2023
Town of Ashland seeks to create destination out of downtown fire station
March 6, 2023As construction for a new public-safety building nears completion in Ashland, the Town is seeking proposals to fill its soon-to-be-vacant fire station at 151 Main St. with what it hopes will become a draw for residents and visitors.
March 6, 2023
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