Editorial: Could manufacturing be king here again?

Explore masslive.com (Jun 3 2011) Manufacturing

Geographically, Springfield-Holyoke has a competitive advantage over the Sun Belt in shipping to the Northeast’s mega-markets. Also, it......about the need to spread the recovery to the western side of the commonwealth. A few firms, such as Liberty Mutual, which operates a call center here, have already taken advantage of the low-cost productivity avail... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Liberty Mutual   Springfield   Holyoke

The State We’re In

Explore BusinessWest (Feb 1 2011)

...y of Housing & Economic Development. He noted that so-called gateway cities such as Springfield and Holyoke need investments from the state to stimulate private spending and create new sources of jobs and ......by state and/or federal assistance — on one level or another. Examples abound, from the presence of Liberty Mutual in the Technology Park at Springfield Technical Community College to the high-performance computing... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   MassMutual   Springfield Technical Community College

Facilitating Job Growth

Explore BusinessWest (Jan 18 2011)

... across the Commonwealth, most of them older former manufacturing centers, such as Springfield, Holyoke, Chicopee, and Pittsfield, that are in many ways trying to reinvent themselves. In early 2010, the ......h Smith & Wesson, at $6 million, getting the second-largest award behind the $22 million granted to Liberty Mutual. The mindset over the past year is to essentially get more bang for the buck — more jobs for the do... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Domenic J. Sarno   Liberty Mutual   Smith & Wesson Corp.

Pioneer Valley's economic growth requires cooperation among businesses, government, educational leaders, panelists say

Explore masslive.com (May 24 2010)

...ngfield, for the region? Come up with that and then don’t worry about what goes into Springfield or Holyoke or Northampton or even Enfield.” Hailer was part of a three-person panel with Ira H. Rubenzahl, pre......d with larger cities in the northeast have yet to pay large dividends. Ruebenzahl pointed to the Liberty Mutual offices in the Springfield Technical Community College Technology Park which has 350 employees. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Springfield Technical Community College   Liberty Mutual   Springfield