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1. MassMutual decision adds to Springfield's 'momentum,' Western Massachusetts development official says
  
  Explore masslive.com Feb 8 2018 Business Development , Workforce
  
  CRRC is about to open its rail car factory in East Springfield, MGM Springfield is seven months from opening its resort casino in the South End and now homegrown MassMutual will add jobs at its headquarters on State Street. "That is a lot of momentum, and it gets noticed," said Richard K. Sullivan Jr., president and CEO of the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts. MassMutual plans to grow its workforce at its corporate headquarters on State Street by approximately 50 percent. The insurer will add 1,500 jobs there over the next four years, bringing the total number of ...
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  Mentions: Domenic J. Sarno University of Massachusetts MassMutual
2. MASSMUTUAL ANNOUNCES MAJOR EXPANSION AND REINVESTMENT IN MASSACHUSETTS
  
  Explore From the EDC Feb 8 2018 Business Development , Workforce
  
  MassMutual to invest nearly $300 million in Commonwealth. Will add 2,000 jobs to state over next four years, including 1,500 at corporate headquarters in Springfield, and build new Boston campus on Fan Pier. MassMutual workforce in state to grow by 70 percent.
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  Mentions: Domenic J. Sarno MassMutual Springfield
3. “Innovations and Opportunities in Green Technologies”
  
  Explore From the EDC Oct 3 2017 Green Region
  
  Join UMass Amherst and the Economic Development Council of Western Mass for an event to be held at the Design Building at UMass Amherst, 551 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003 October 17, 2017 from 8:30AM – 12PM. Green technology sectors offer business and employment opportunities stemming from clean energy, climate change mitigations, water innovation, and green building technologies. Join UMass Amherst and Western Mass EDC for an event on innovations in new sectors, their potential for growth, and how Western Mass and UMass Amherst are taking a lead in green tech developments. Network and make connections between UMass Amherst ...
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4. House Speaker DeLeo: 'Why don't you look at Springfield?'
  
  Explore masslive.com May 18 2017 Business Development
  
  DeLeo, D-Winthrop, described the conversation Thursday in a speech to the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts. He said he asked about all the GE subsidiaries that might follow the home office to Massachusetts. Yes, he was told, various GE businesses might follow. "Why don't you look out west?" DeLeo told the executive. "Why don't you look in Springfield? That's where the real estate is going to sell for much less than what you are paying in the Seaport district." The EDC is a regional economic development organization that works to bring businesses to the region, helps ...
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From the EDC
1. Love Bradley International Airport?
  
  Explore From the EDC May 16 2018 Transportation by Sarah Spencer
  
  Show your support for Bradley International Airport! Tell Condé Nast Traveler what you love about Bradley. You could win a Viking Ocean Cruise for two!
  
  Vote now in the 2018 Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards
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2. Condition of Education in Western Massachusetts
  
  Explore From the EDC May 10 2018 Education by Catherine Rauseo
  
  Please join us for a conversation on the status of education in Western Massachusetts. The event will put a local focus on findings from the Rennie Center's Condition of Education in the Commonwealth report. We'll discuss the latest data on the impact of early learning in Western Massachusetts and you'll hear from local educators and leaders about promising programs in the area.
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3. NEW REPORT FINDS USE OF COAL AND OIL DURING A TWO-WEEK PERIOD THIS WINTER HAD EMISSIONS EQUIVALENT TO ADDING 6.4 MILLION CARS ON NEW ENGLAND ROADS
  
  Explore From the EDC May 8 2018 Energy by Bill Ryan
  
  Report calls for Balanced, Multi-Faceted Energy Solutions
  
  BOSTON, MA (May 7, 2018) - The Massachusetts Coalition for Sustainable Energy (MCSE) today released “The Need for a Balanced Portfolio Approach to Address New England’s Fuel Security Problem” – a new report that details the significant environmental and negative economic impact that the current lack of access to reliable energy is having on Massachusetts and throughout New England. Concentric Energy Advisors, Inc. authored the report.
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  Mentions: Governor Deval L. Patrick Associated Industries of Massachusetts Rick Sullivan
4. 2018 Inner City Capital Connections in Springfield!
  
  Explore From the EDC Apr 25 2018 by Steve Grossman
  
  Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, with the support of the MassMutual Foundation and Berkshire Bank, cordially invites you to a kick-off breakfast on Tuesday, May 15thto learn more about the Boston Inner City Capital Connections program (ICCC) and its mission to help small businesses throughout Western Massachusetts build capacity and access the capital needed to drive growth.
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Western Massachusetts Business News
1. An Employment Lawyer Diversifies into Manufacturing
  
  Explore BusinessWest 17 hours, 14 min ago Entrepreneurship , Manufacturing
  
  When she started her law career with a firm in Springfield, Amy Royal didn’t consider herself an entrepreneur. But that quality emerged quickly, and she would go on to start her own firm. She soon realized, though, that she was a actually a serial entrepreneur with an appetite for developing and growing companies, the latest of which is a door manufacturer in Ludlow.
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2. Valet parking program proposed outside MassLive office building at Springfield's Court...
  
  Explore masslive.com May 20 2018
  
  The owner of the MassLive building at Court Square is proposing a valet parking program, intended to improve the experience for visitors of the office building and its neighbor, City Hall. As proposed, six parking spots will be set aside on City Hall Place, a one-way side street between the MassLive building, at 1350 Main St., and City Hall. The valet stand would be at the corner of Court Street and City Hall Place, and the attendants would park cars in the the designated spaces and at the nearby Civic Center garage on Bruce Landon Way.
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3. Wellspring Harvest to hold greenhouse ribbon cutting, open house events Sunday
  
  Explore masslive.com May 19 2018
  
  Wellspring Harvest will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony Sunday to commemorate the completion of its hydroponic greenhouse and the beginning of its agricultural production. The cooperative corporation will officially open its Indian Orchard greenhouse with a 2 p.m. ribbon cutting event at the 121 Pinevale St. location. Following the ribbon cutting, Wellspring Harvest will hold a two-hour open house, which will feature demonstrations of hydroponic growing techniques, tours and free lettuce samples, according to organizers.
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4. Sisters of Providence break ground on affordable housing with elder care services in West...
  
  Explore masslive.com May 18 2018 Health Care
  
  The Sisters of Providence have broken ground on Hillside Residence, a $10 million project to build 36 units of affordable, elder care housing on the 27-acre Providence campus at 2112 Riverdale St. The project calls for integrating housing for residents age 62 or older with the health services they will need as they grow older, according to Sister Kathleen Popko, president of the Sisters of Providence. "At times, the dream seemed futile," Popko told the crowd gathered Friday at the site where the housing will soon rise, recalling the ups and downs of trying to secure project funding over the ...
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5. Look inside the new UMass Amherst mobile water treatment lab
  
  Explore masslive.com May 18 2018
  
  A new mobile water treatment lab run by UMass Amherst will help small towns test new water treatment technology. "Some of our smaller towns are risk-averse to testing new technologies on their water treatment," said Rep. Smitty Pignatelli, D-Lenox. "This would allow them to kick the tires and test it on a much smaller basis." Pignatelli said making a mistake with a new technology can cost towns tens of thousands of dollars, so this is an opportunity for small systems to test out new technologies and see if they will work on a larger scale.
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  Mentions: University of Massachusetts Amherst Clean Energy Center
6. Chicopee Construction company to move to mostly vacant industrial park, city approves tax...
  
  Explore masslive.com May 18 2018
  
  A local construction company is planning to move to a parcel of land in the Chicopee River Business Park, which has been mostly empty since it was created more than 25 years ago. A. Crane Construction LLC. is purchasing an about 10-acre lot known as Parcel 8 on East Main Street. The property is across the street from the main part of the Business River Park and on the side that runs along the Chicopee River, said Eric Nelson president and CEO of Westmass Westmass Area Development Corporation, which owns the industrial park. The company has not closed on the ...
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7. Springfield Innovation Center construction to resume in June
  
  Explore masslive.com May 18 2018 Business Development
  
  DevelopSpringfield says it will restart renovation work in mid-June on the long-stalled Springfield Innovation Center. MassDevelopment, the state's finance and development agency, sent DevelopSpringfield a commitment letter this week putting the local agency one step closer to getting the financing it needs to complete the project, said Nicholas Fyntrilakis, chairman of the DevelopSpringfield board of directors.
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  Mentions: MassDevelopment MassMutual Western New England University
8. Reshaping philanthropy in our community
  
  Explore masslive.com May 17 2018
  
  As the generosity-dust settles on the sixth and likely final Valley Gives Day, I'm feeling more than a little sentimental. This one-day festival of community philanthropy began with a question posed by devoted community member Paul Doherty: "How can we make this Valley the most generous region in the country?" Looking back now, the "we" has clearly emerged as the most important part of that question.
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9. Yee family, Masse's Seafood taking over Brunelle's Marina Dockside Restaurant in South Hadley, planning improvements, new name
  
  Explore masslive.com May 17 2018
  
  Luke Brunelle, owner of Brunelle's Marina on the Connecticut River in South Hadley, said he's a pretty good restaurateur for the Dockside -- but only in the winter. "When I'm not doing any boat business," Brunelle said. "In the summer, there is just too much going on. I just can't pay enough attention and I can only hope I made the right decisions back before the season." The decision he made this offseason was to bring in old friends -- the Yee family, longtime owners of the former Hu Ke Lau in Chicopee and current owners and operators ...
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10. West of the River Chamber of Commerce Announces Job Fair
  
  Explore BusinessWest May 17 2018 Workforce
  
  The West of the River Chamber of Commerce will present its second job fair, with the tagline “local jobs for local people,” on Tuesday, May 22 from 3 to 6 p.m. at Storrowton Tavern & Carriage House.
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Picture Gallery

Love Bradley International Airport? From the EDC

Condition of Education in Western Massachusetts From the EDC

NEW REPORT FINDS USE OF COAL AND OIL DURING A TWO-WEEK PERIOD THIS WINTER HAD EMISSIONS EQUIVALENT TO ADDING 6.4 MILLION CARS ON NEW ENGLAND ROADS From the EDC

2018 Inner City Capital Connections in Springfield! From the EDC

MassMutual decision adds to Springfield's 'momentum,' Western Massachusetts development official says masslive.com

MASSMUTUAL ANNOUNCES MAJOR EXPANSION AND REINVESTMENT IN MASSACHUSETTS From the EDC

“Innovations and Opportunities in Green Technologies” From the EDC

House Speaker DeLeo: 'Why don't you look at Springfield?' masslive.com

An Employment Lawyer Diversifies into Manufacturing BusinessWest

Valet parking program proposed outside MassLive office building at Springfield's Court... masslive.com

Wellspring Harvest to hold greenhouse ribbon cutting, open house events Sunday masslive.com

Sisters of Providence break ground on affordable housing with elder care services in West... masslive.com
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