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With new building codes on the horizon, battles will be fought in the name of progress, as developers and various interest groups are hesitant to make sweeping changes to make constructing the things their communities need more expensive and difficult to bring to fruition via constrictive rules.

Galaxy Links, LLC, registered to Galaxy Development principal Michael O’Brien, has purchased Sutton’s Pleasant Valley Country Club.

By Devina Bhalla This story appeared in the Special Section: Worcester Emerging, detailing the buzz building around the city. To see the entire section, click here As Worcester grows, so does its appeal to investors and developers. “For the most part, I can’t ask for any more than a location like Worcester,” said Mark Nedelman, CEO of Biomere, a biomedical company with 100 employees on Union Street. This idea for why it is important for the city to capitalize on Worcester’...

District 1 Councilor Sean Rose is calling for the creation of a design review board to oversee aesthetic components of new construction in the city.

It was 1987, and Worcester was perhaps at its apex as a regional shopping destination. The Greendale Mall was opening, joining the Galleria mall downtown and completing a long conversion of the city from a place once drawing shoppers to downtown storefronts – like Denholm’s and Woolworth – to one attracting people to indoor malls in a new era of retail. Worcester may have improbably managed to keep shoppers coming into the city in the age of new highways and suburbanization, but it didn�...