Last year, Massachusetts was ranked among the top 15 states for business by CNBC. This year, the state dropped down from 14th to 24th. Each year, CNBC creates its America’s Top States for Business list by scoring all 50 states on 88 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness. These include categories like access to capital, infrastructure, […]
Eastern Bank has provided a $14-million loan to the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston for its landmark purchase of the Western Avenue Studios & Lofts in Lowell, MA. The WASL complex includes 240,000 square feet of space, 250 work-only artist studios, 50 live/work studios, and a brewery, café and gallery. The Arts & Business Council of […]
They’ve been referred to as millennials, Generation Y, or eighties babies. Whatever you choose to call them one fact still hold true: the demographic of people born from the early 1980’s the late 1990’s to currently represent 28.5 percent of the population. The 28.5 percentage means that they are the single largest group accounted for […]
I fancy myself quite the tech geek and I am continually looking for new apps to improve my productivity. So I decided to share the ones I love with my readers. Now before I share keep in mind what works for me may not work for you. Simple – Their tag line is “Replace your […]
Mayor of Providence, Angel Taveras, released an action plan for economic development on March 27th, 2013. In an open letter to his constituents, Taveras discusses the economic challenges Providence was faced with when he assumed office in 2011. “Unemployment was too high, private sector investment was too scarce and our housing market continued to suffer […]
