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  • Global market leads to Starrett earnings plunge

    Sam Bonacci August 26, 2015

    Athol-based tool manufacturer L.S. Starrett felt the bite of the international market's downturn in its fiscal year 2015 report with a decline in sales and a large drop in net earnings.

  • Gardner business adding to plant, workforce

    August 25, 2015

    Advanced Cable Ties of Gardner will use an $8 million tax-exempt bond from MassDevelopment to build an addition and add new equipment, the state's economic development agency said today.

  • Psych, substance abuse site being built at Devens

    August 19, 2015

    Behavioral health services provider Health Partners New England is building a 104-bed treatment facility in Devens after buying more than seven acres of land from MassDevelopment, the two organizations announced Wednesday.

  • Strengthening 'town and gown' in Fitchburg

    Livia Gershon Special To The Worcester Business Journal August 17, 2015

    Even before he showed up on campus to start his new job in mid-July, Fitchburg State University's new president, Richard Lapidus, had met with major local players such as Mayor Lisa Wong and Roy Nascimento, president and CEO of the North Central…

  • Health care reform spurs hospitals to build satellite facilities elsewhere

    Christina P. O'neill Special To The Worcester Business Journal August 17, 2015

    It's no mistake that, throughout Massachusetts, there's more hospital signage showing up either on commercial sites, or on empty land that will give rise to satellite facilities under the umbrella of larger health care systems. That, in turn, is…

  • Galvin: TelexFREE victims receive first Fidelity Bank settlement checks

    August 14, 2015

    More than 14,000 Massachusetts residents have received checks for $205.52 each from Fidelity Bank of Fitchburg as part of a relief fund settlement reached last year with the state, Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin announced Friday.

  • Nashoba Valley Medical Center workers get pay increase

    August 5, 2015

    Health care workers at Nashoba Valley Medical Center, in Ayer, who voted to form a union with 1199SEIU in January 2015 will receive a pay increase and other benefit enhancements as part of a new union contract agreement reached with Steward Health…

  • AMSC revenues rocket up as losses fall

    Sam Bonacci August 5, 2015

    Devens-based AMSC more than doubled revenue in the first quarter of fiscal year 2015, while cutting losses and expanding cash reserves, the company announced Wednesday.

  • Nashoba Valley nurses to picket as Steward talks continue

    Emily Micucci August 5, 2015

    Citing pay that is below average for nurses at comparable hospitals and staffing procedures that make work hours unpredictable, members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) at Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer will hold an informational…

  • Court allows class-action suit against Unitil

    Sam Bonacci July 31, 2015

    A class-action lawsuit against Unitil Corp. over its handling of a crippling ice storm in 2008 has been allowed to proceed by a Worcester Superior Court judge.

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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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