Community Profiles
Community Profiles
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 […]
Four years ago, a $7,500 grant from MassDevelopment helped to fund the first annual Downtown GetDown block party in Chicopee. Mayor Richard Kos understands why that was a good investment. […]
Community Spotlight It was the food that brought Cynthia West to Easthampton. Well, sort of. It was the food, in the form of weekly visits to restaurants like Galaxy, Kisara, […]
Community Spotlight When people think of economic development, they might think of a flood of new businesses into a community. Longmeadow will never have that, Town Manager Stephen Crane said, […]
Community Spotlight Kate Phelon has long appreciated the spirit of collaboration between Westfield’s municipal, business, and educational leaders — and points to the Westfield Education to Business Alliance, which just […]
A Shopping Evolution Hampshire Mall has seen its share of changes over the decades, particularly in recent years with the onslaught of online retail that has severely challenged brick-and-mortar shopping […]
