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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
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
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
Q&A: The Center for Arts in Natick hoping to get back to 2019
Updated: March 20, 2023Lavalley, the executive director, is in his 19th year in charge and trying to keep the nonprofit’s legacy alive while it continues to transform to something new in its post-COVID existence.
Updated: March 20, 2023
WPI’s CERES lab offers researchers and companies the opportunity to access expensive, hard-to-find equipment
Updated: March 20, 2023The machines in here don’t look like the old science classrooms or even the classrooms we see in movies. Instead, it’s sterile and more like a command center. These machines aren’t for experimentation; they’re to see if your experiment works.
Updated: March 20, 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
After nor’easter, Sub Zero Ice Cream offers a glimpse of spring with grand opening in Worcester and has eyes on Ashland next
March 15, 2023After ramping up since opening its doors in September, Sub Zero Nitrogen Ice Cream is holding its grand opening ceremony at its Front Street store at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
March 15, 2023
Co-working company leases floor of Mercantile Center
March 8, 2023Wolanski CoWork, Inc., a franchise of Venture X, will open a nearly 15,000-square-foot coworking space in downtown Worcester in late summer.
March 8, 2023
Business Leaders of the Year: Hylton provides dignity in mental health services
Updated: March 6, 2023At Jennifer Hylton’s Counseling & Assessment Clinic of Worcester, word choice matters.
Updated: March 6, 2023
Q&A: The wonderful world of an independent bookstore
Updated: March 6, 2023TidePool Bookshop opened in September 2020 after months of delays thanks to COVID-19. Now, two years later, they have a busy store with a growing number of events and an expanding catalog of books.
Updated: March 6, 2023
Business Leaders of the Year: Champagne is the godfather of cold spray
Updated: March 6, 2023Victor Champagne has always been a planner. The 60-year-old additive manufacturing lead of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory went into engineering because it was a practical choice.
Updated: March 6, 2023
Central Mass. defied state and national startup trends in 2022
Updated: March 6, 2023Although the growth slowed last year, 2022 still showed Central Massachusetts has become a destination for new businesses. Another 2,772 new businesses incorporated in the region in 2022, a 1.5% increase over the eye-popping 2021 figures.
Updated: March 6, 2023
Business Leaders of the Year: Cormier has grown her mother’s natural food legacy
Updated: March 6, 2023When the cafe at Roots Natural Food opened on Valentine’s Day 2023, after shuttering for the entirety of the coronavirus pandemic, it was a reopening with intention.
Updated: March 6, 2023
WBJ names the 2023 Business Leaders of the Year
Updated: March 6, 2023Each of this year's five Business Leaders of the Year have their own unique story to tell, of triumph, of perseverance, of seizing opportunities in the market. Yet, they all share one trait, which has led to their success: love.
Updated: March 6, 2023
WBJ Hall of Fame: Shepherd built up two cornerstones of the Worcester community
Updated: March 6, 2023Shepherd leads the former Shepherd & Goldstein (rebranded to S&G in light of the pair’s eventual retirement) on a reduced schedule of 40 hours per week alongside his new co-managing partner, Matthew Allison.
Updated: March 6, 2023
Workbar expanding into MetroWest with coworking space off MassPike
March 3, 2023Boston coworking space company Workbar, LLC will open its first MetroWest location in Framingham in July. This will be the company’s 11th shared common office space, and the one furthest west of Boston.
March 3, 2023
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