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A Worcester neighborhood with a history of crime and poverty is working on a new image. Some Main South supporters say it's always had much to offer.

Wednesday’s announcement that Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito will not run in 2022 is reverberating across the state.

Main South art installation latest in movement to spruce up business corridor “I love Main South,” the large, colorful installation reads, with a heart symbolizing the word love.  The project was funded by a state grant awarded to the Regional Environmental Council in 2020.  The REC, a city nonprofit that works to increase access to healthy foods, partnered with multiple groups on the project, including the Main South Business Association.  “We want to put out the message, 'Together, we’re stronger,’” Laura Perez-Garcia, president of the association, said Tuesday.  Main South ...

Lot on Grand Street vacant for more than 60 years turning to 48 housing units, retail with $258K Brownfields grant Nicole Shih, Telegram & Gazette © Rick Cinclair/Telegram & Gazette WORCESTER - Construction continues on a formerly vacant lot at 92 Grand Street Wednesday, May 12, 2021. WORCESTER — The Massachusetts Development Finance Agency awarded $257,800 through the Brownfields Redevelopment Fund to the Main South Community Development Corporation (CDC), which is using proceeds to assess and remediate a vacant lot at 92 Grand St. in Worcester’s Main South neighbor...

By WHAV Staff | May 11, 2021 Concept from 2015 shows replacement of the Herbert H. Goecke Jr. Memorial Parking Deck with a six-story garage on a smaller footprint. The remaining land would be developed for new commercial buildings. Click image for Haverhill City Council agenda. Haverhill has received five proposals to redevelop some or all of the land around, and including, the Herbert H. Goecke Jr. Memorial Parking Deck, downtown. Developers had until April 28 to submit proposals to reuse up to five parcels of city-owned land, totaling 4.5 acres, land between Merrimack Street, Main Street a...