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Friday, August 4, 2017
 
New Holiday Inn, expanding Publick House in Sturbridge
 
A 77-room Holiday Inn Express opened last month on Route 20, and as soon as September, work will begin on a new building with 28 hotel rooms at the Publick House.
 
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WPI to open student project center at Fort Point in Boston
 
Worcester Polytechnic Institute will open a 6,400-square-foot space this fall for students to conduct research projects in Boston's Fort Point neighborhood.
 
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Area's newest brewery, River Styx, opens in Fitchburg
 
River Styx Brewing opened a taproom and brewery last weekend at 166 Boulder Drive in downtown Fitchburg.
 
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Putting on the first Worcester Wine Festival
 
Ed Russo founded Lock 50 in Worcester's Canal District a year ago, accelerating his plans for a relaxing retirement at the urging of his son.
 
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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.
 
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Viewpoint: Incubators need local support
 
The strength of an incubator is the community it supports and the engagement of strategic partners, entrepreneurs and mentors.
 
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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!
 
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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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Sutton shopping center replacing soccer fields with restaurant, building
 
 
Golden Pizza to pay $584k in back wages, damages
 
 
Proposals would bring hydropower to Mass.
 
 
POW! WOW! Worcester to add 29 murals
 
 
HomeGoods, T.J. Maxx to switch plazas in Milford
 
 
Total Wine wins pricing case
 
 
Flying Rhino, law firm get $525K in SBA loans
 
 
eClinicalWorks adds 3,000 providers in 2nd quarter
 
 
Carpenters union files complaint against 145 Front St. contractor
 
 
 
 

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