CVS opens near MGM Springfield Sunday; developer says it’ll draw shoppers to neighborhood
CVS opens its $2 million store Sunday in the new Davenport Square on Main Street across from MGM Springfield in the city’s South End. It’s a step landlord and developer Charles Irving, president of Davenport Properties, said will help existing businesses and lure new ones to the neighborhood. One criticism of MGM is that it…
Springfield’s Educare Facility Is State-of-the-art in Every Respect
Nikki Burnett says Springfield’s Old Hill neighborhood and those surrounding it certainly need the gleaming new $14 million Educare facility constructed next door to the Elias Brookings Elementary School on Walnut Street. More to the point, though, she told BusinessWest, they deserve this facility, which can only be described with that phrase state-of-the-art when it…
Kim Robinson Takes the Helm at the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Kim Robinson, who has worked with planning and development agencies in Detroit and Nevada, has been chosen to fill the large shoes left by Tim Brennan, who recently retired as director of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission after more than four decades in that position. Robinson is focused on a number of short- and long-term…
MassHire Springfield Career Center plans move
MassHire Springfield Career Center, which used to be known as FutureWorks until a statewide rebranding last year, is moving to 95 Liberty St., near the post office and Union Station. MassHire will move out of its offices in the Springfield Technical Community College Technology Park on Saturday, Dec 14, and open in the new location…
Way Finders Awards Two Congressman John W. Olver Scholarships
NeighborWorks America, through its affiliate Way Finders, has awarded Congressman John W. Olver Scholarships to two individuals — Melissa Fales, program manager for Quaboag Valley Community Development Corp., and Kerry Homstead, community facilitator for the Treehouse Foundation — to attend the NeighborWorks America Training Institute (NTI). The scholarships provide travel, lodging, and tuition to a catalogue…
Four Western Mass., 2 Boston hospitals get ‘A’ grades for patient safety
Four area hospitals – Baystate Franklin in Greenfield, Baystate Noble in Westfield and Holyoke Medical Center as well as Cooley Dickinson in Northampton – received the top grade of “A” in the Fall 2019 round of hospitals scored nationwide on protecting patients from medical errors, infections and injuries by the Washington-based Leapfrog Group. Read the…
Gateway City Innovation Awards & Summit
MassINC is getting ready for its Seventh Annual Gateway Cities Innovation Institute Summit and Awards. This year’s theme focuses on catalyzing transformative transit oriented development in our Gateway Cities. The event will be held on November 20th at the DCU Center in Worcester. We expect over 250 guests from across the state including members of the Baker…
‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ creator Eric Carle sells Northampton company; brand now encompasses books, theater, food and more
Eric Carle, author of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and “The Very Busy Spider” as well as founder of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, has sold his company and his brand to his longtime publisher, Penguin Young Readers. Read the source article at masslive.com
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Do you want to be amazed, experience greatness, savor the flavors, make memories? Than discover and explore downtown Springfield! Read the source article at BusinessWest
Williams Distributing sells Chicopee warehouse and land for $5 million as part of Quality Beverage deal
Quality Beverage paid $5 million for the Williams Distributing real estate at 880 Burnett Road last month, according to documents on file with the Hampden County Registry of Deeds. In August, officials with both companies announced that Quality Beverage would buy the Chicopee-based beer distributorship — the business and the real estate — for an…
End of partnership with US HealthVest could delay plans for Baystate Health psychiatric hospital in Holyoke
Baystate Health’s search for a new partner in its quest to build a standalone psychiatric hospital in Holyoke might set the project back three to six months. “But we feel that the plan is a good one,” Baystate President and President and CEO Mark A. Keroack said. “We are committed to finding a partner who…
Baystate Health cuts ties with embattled US HealthVest; seeks new partner for proposed Holyoke behavioral health facility
Baystate Health announced Wednesday that it has split with US HealthVest, ending a partnership on a proposed $30 million inpatient behavioral health hospital after published reports alleging substandard care at the for-profit company’s facilities in other states. Read the source article at masslive.com