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This Is Not a Fire Drill By Brion J. Kirsch and James F. Martin Remember in elementary school when they would have a planned fire drill? The alarm would […]
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Art of the Matter Evan Plotkin says he decided to call it the ‘Springfield Room.’ That’s because … most all of the paintings on the walls, courtesy of artist John […]
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Building Momentum In many respects, Nick LaPier is back where he started. Or at least back to where he started his own accounting firm in 2003. That would be the […]
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Building the Portfolio Vid Mitta acknowledged that the emergence of remote work and its impact — still to be determined in many respects — on the region’s inventory of […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. —The construction industry registered 388,000 job openings in November, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job […]
SPRINGFIELD — After 13 years of ownership, MassDevelopment announced it has sold 1550 Main in Springfield to Mittas Holdings, LLC and DGP Properties, LLC, owned by Vidhyadhar “Vid” Mitta and […]
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Furnishing the Future Gene Borowski has a keen sense of history. So he was especially intrigued by an old hydraulic elevator in the former Lambson Furniture building in downtown […]
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Making Some Noise Jeremy Casey had decided it was time to move on from the banking business. He had already been with several area institutions, working in commercial lending and, […]
Art of the City As part of transformative development initiatives and rapid-recovery tourism efforts to attract more visitors to downtown, the city of Holyoke, in collaboration with the Greater Holyoke […]
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A Landmark Decision Amy Royal first started taking notice of the Alexander House in Springfield when she was a high-school student at nearby MacDuffie, and soon became taken in by […]
NORTHAMPTON — Richard ‘Rich’ Cooper, whose family built and nurtured the Cooper’s Corner and State Street Fruit Store markets, announced today that he is selling the businesses to a dedicated, […]
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Urban Pioneers Big Y Foods will soon begin the process of transforming the former CVS location in Tower Square into its latest market. The chain has been operating for […]
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Building on a Solid Foundation Matt Flink was recently named president and CEO of Appleton Corp., the real-estate and property-management arm of the O’Connell Companies. He brings with him considerable […]
SPRINGFIELD — Developer Peter A Picknelly, along with Springfield city officials, on Thursday unveiled a proposal to build a new Hampden County courthouse on a 14.5-acre site along the Connecticut […]
SPRINGFIELD — Colliers Capital Markets announced that it has been retained by MassDevelopment, to sell 1550 Main Street, the 128,900 square-foot office building in Springfield’s downtown corridor. Colliers Executive Vice […]