Worcester Business Journal
WBJ
Central Massachusetts' Source for Business News Volume 30 • Number 2 $2.00 January 21, 2019
10 THINGS
Tips on how to retain
staff in the service
industry. |
18
Hits & Misses
The second story of the four-story tax
break series shows 12% of tax break
deals fail.
| 14
Central Mass. officials are pushing a new
federal development incentive.
| 8
Opportunity zones
THE LISTS:
COMMERCIAL R.E.
LEASES & SALES
PHOTO/MATT WRIGHT
PHOTO/GRANT WELKER
Paying
for growth
16 prominent Central Mass. commu-
nities have given out 148 tax breaks
in the last 20 years, calling for $2.3
billion in private investment
Story by Grant Welker Page 10 >>>
Bruce Platzman, president,
CEO and co-founder of AIS
in Leominster
1st in a 4-story series
Tax Breaks
Paying for Growth
S H O P TA L K
Julia Becker
Collins has
taken over
Vision
Advertising
22
PHOTO/MATT WRIGHT