Community Profiles
Community Profiles
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 […]
Community Spotlight Rocco Falcone acknowledged that, when he and fellow partners Andy Yee and Peter Picknelly acquired the Woodlawn Shopping Plaza on Newton Street in South Hadley in 2016, they […]
World Changers Katya Cherukumilli has a big idea with potentially bigger impact. Her nonprofit startup, Seattle-based Global Water Labs, is developing a scalable and affordable fluoride-removal technology that aims to […]
Community Spotlight A rendering of the rail station expansion and renovation, scheduled to be completed this summer. A Knowledge Corridor study before the Amtrak Vermonter line opened four years ago […]
