| | | | | | | | | | | Mount Wachusett holding workforce training event | | | | Mount Wachusett Community College will hold an event Tuesday in Gardner to discuss new college programming aimed at helping the area's workforce. | | | | Read more >> | | | | Viewpoint: Incubators need local support | | | | The strength of an incubator is the community it supports and the engagement of strategic partners, entrepreneurs and mentors. | | | | Read more >> | | | | Outstanding Women in Business Awards deadline is Saturday | | | | Here is your chance to nominate a deserving business woman that you know, and have her accomplishments recognized and celebrated! | | | | Read more >> | | | | | | Like us on Facebook for our latest business news |
| | | | | | | | | | Week in review | | | | Apartments approved at Notre Dame site | | | The long-vacant but beloved Notre Dame des Canadiens Church in downtown Worcester is too dilapidated to be feasibly redeveloped, according to Roseland Residential Trust, which has a sales agreement to buy the church site. On Wednesday, the Worcester Planning Board approved Roseland's plans for a $30-million, 84-unit apartment building along Franklin Street just east of Worcester Common. Roseland is also developing the nearby 365-unit 175 Front at City Square project.
| | | | Biologics company no longer in mix for Worcester project | | | LakePharma, the California biologics company expected — but never fully committed — to anchor a planned biomanufacturing campus in Worcester has now pulled out of the project, disappointing officials who lobbied and negotiated incentives for the company. An initial 100,000-square-foot building won't be built without an anchor tenant, so the timeline for the project is now less clear.
| | | | Layoffs at Hanover | | | The Hanover Insurance Group will cut about 160 jobs, with half in the Worcester headquarters, across various departments and levels. The personnel cuts are expected to save $30 million, Hanover said. The insurance company is also planning $20 million in non-personnel cost reductions.
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