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    UMass hospital leader elected chair of Corridor 9/495 chamber

    Timothy Doyle July 19, 2023

    The Corridor 9/495 Regional Chamber of Commerce named the president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health-Marlborough Hospital and UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital in Leominster as the chamber’s new board chair for a two year term.

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    WBJ publishes its 2023 Book of Lists

    July 19, 2023

    Worcester Business Journal has published its Book of Lists, the annual publication and directory full of the main movers and shakers in the Central Massachusetts business community.

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    Two MetroWest distribution centers sold for $79M

    Timothy Doyle July 18, 2023

    Two class-A warehouses in The Crossroads Industrial Park at 495 on the Marlborough-Northborough border sold for a combined $78.9 million on July 11, according to the Worcester District Registry of Deeds.

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    Workers Credit Union long-time CEO Doug Petersen retires

    Timothy Doyle July 17, 2023

    The second-largest credit union in Central Massachusetts, Littleton’s Workers Credit Union, will have a new leader, as longtime President and CEO Doug Petersen retired on Friday.

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    International foods market buys new Framingham location for $3.5M

    Timothy Doyle July 14, 2023

    New Jersey-based Seabra Foods has purchased a former Salvation Army location at 35 Concord St. in Framingham for a new supermarket location, across from the newly-constructed 196-apartment Union House.

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    Ameresco completes solar facility installation in Indiana

    Isabel Tehan July 14, 2023

    Framingham firm Ameresco, which specializes in clean and renewable energy, has completed the installation of a solar field which will power a utility-structure manufacturing plant in Bristol, Indiana.

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    Waters laying off 4% of its workforce

    Isabel Tehan July 13, 2023

    Milford life sciences firm Waters Corp. will lay off about 4% of its 8,200 employees worldwide, and most of the impacted Massachusetts employees will be at the Milford headquarters.

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    Mass. Democrats unveil $700M spending plan

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service July 13, 2023

    House Democrats rolled out a major new spending initiative Wednesday, outlining a $693 million supplemental budget packed with funding for hospitals, collective bargaining agreements, special education and workers in the state's safety net system.

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    Atlanta developer buys Marlborough land for planned 276-apartment development

    Timothy Doyle July 13, 2023

    Atlanta-based developer Wood Partners, which is constructing a high-profile apartment complex in Worcester, completed the purchase of a downtown block in Marlborough for another project – its planned Alta Marlborough mixed-use development.

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    Framingham firm to create large-scale battery system to fortify Colorado electric grid

    Isabel Tehan July 12, 2023

    Framingham clean energy company Ameresco has signed a 20-year, eight-site contract with Colorado electric utility United Power to install a large battery system designed to improve the power grid.

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Today's Poll

Should Massachusetts significantly reduce the environmental review time for new housing projects?
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In an effort to increase the pace of new housing development in Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey has proposed streamlining the environmental review process for certain new housing projects, with the goal of reducing the time spent on the process from about one year to 30 days. Environmental reviews are a hallmark of community planning, to ensure new development doesn't negatively impact surrounding properties or natural resources, even though the process does add significant time and often cost to projects. Healey's proposal comes after Massachusetts fell behind the national average in new housing production, despite adding 90,000 new units since she became governor in 2023.

New England already averages the longest timeline in the nation to build a single-family home once the developer has been giving the authorization to move forward with construction, according to U.S. Census statistics compiled by the National Association of Home Builders. In 2023, single-family homes in New England averaged 13.9 months from permit to completion. The South Atlantic states have the lowest average of 8.9 months while the region that includes Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana is the second quickest at 9.4 months. The second-longest average after New England is the New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania region, which takes 13.2 months.

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