Community Profiles
Community Profiles
Community Spotlight Historic properties are getting a second act in Lenox these days. Take the $60 million expansion and renovation at the former Cranwell Spa & Golf Resort. The Miraval […]
Getting Down to Business Taking over leadership of a chamber of commerce is always fraught with challenges, especially in a community as rich in diverse businesses and nonprofits as Northampton, […]
Community Spotlight The Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce shares a downtown storefront with the Amherst Downtown Business Improvement District (BID). More important, the two organizations share a common vision. “In […]
Prodigy Offers Fresh Entertainment Alternative By Mark Morris When game designers evaluate a new concept, one of the most important considerations is for the game to deliver a fun and […]
Community Spotlight Mayor William Sapelli said he received the text late on a Friday afternoon earlier this month, and it was somewhat unexpected; he was anticipating word coming later. But […]
Community Spotlight Let’s get the bad news out of the way. And it certainly is bad news. Wilson’s department store, an anchor and destination in downtown Greenfield for a century […]
Community Spotlight Seven priorities, 43 goals, 95 policies, and 355 actions. This tall list makes up the master plan for the city of North Adams. The Vision 2030 Plan was […]
Community Spotlight ‘Somewhere worth seeing.’ This is the tagline that’s been attached to a visioning, branding, wayfinding, and business-development plan for the town of Ware, an ambitious document that has […]
Community Spotlight For more than a decade now, the Ludlow Mills project, a 20-year initiative that is changing the face of that historic complex and bringing jobs, new businesses, and […]
Community Spotlight Revival by its very definition suggests an improvement in the condition or strength of something. It means giving new life to what already exists, an upgrade of sorts. […]
Community Spotlight If a long-discussed tribal casino takes shape in East Windsor, Conn., the town of Enfield would find itself in an intriguing geographic spot between two destination casinos — […]
Community Spotlight Balance. That’s a word you hear quite often in East Longmeadow’s Town Hall these days — and for good reason. This growing community of roughly 16,000 people on […]
Community Spotlight Nov. 7 will be a big day in Southwick — and the start of a big year. Starting that day, a year-long series of events — including holiday […]
Community Spotlight When Margaret Kerswill talks about her favorite part of the town of Stockbridge, she doesn’t mention a restaurant or the relatively low property-tax rate — she talks about […]
Community Spotlight As anyone who lives in Hadley, visits the town, or drives through it knows, Route 9, the main commercial thoroughfare in this still largely agricultural community, is in […]
