6 Worcester Business Journal | November 9, 2020 | wbjournal.com
F A C T B O O K M A I N S T R E E T S
walking beat.
at commitment has included
personal investment by Mazzarella,
himself, who opened a brick-and-mor-
tar location of what became his Central
Discount Flag & Gis store in vacant
line of five storefronts in 2009.
At the encouragement of a city
councilor, Mazzarella reasoned opening
his business there might instill some
optimism into others.
"We did three grand openings
within a month in the same building,"
Mazzarella.
Still, turning Leominster's downtown
around has been far from easy. e
town doesn't have an immediate attrac-
tion like ocean-front property, he said.
Commercial
Residential & industrial
Natick 13.61 13.61
Franklin 14.51 14.51
Ashland 16.16 16.16
Southborough 16.66 16.66
Boxborough 16.72 16.72
Hopkinton 16.82 16.82
Northborough 17.25 17.25
Medway 17.50 17.50
Wayland 17.76 17.76
Westborough 18.32 18.32
Holliston 18.85 18.85
Acton 19.24 19.24
Sherborn 19.46 19.46
Millis 20.14 20.14
Bolton 20.39 20.39
Bellingham 14.22 20.58
Stow 20.61 20.61
Sudbury 18.45 24.97
Marlborough 14.18 25.22
Berlin 15.79 27.84
Maynard 20.64 27.89
Littleton 17.77 28.49
Milford 15.96 29.64
Framingham 14.98 32.30
Hudson 16.61 33.12
It's taken a lot of work.
"We had to make it happen, to work
with a whole lot of people at a grassroots
[level]... in the trenches," he said.
The nonprofit Westborough TV, founded by the town's board of selectmen,
operates out of a downtown location.
MetroWest
Continued from page 5
2020 Central Mass. property tax rates,
by community
Rate per $1,000 in assessed value
Leominster is working to create a small park near The Fix Burger Bar
restaurant on its Main Street corridor.
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Westborough
County: Worcester
Population: 18,272
Year incorporated: 1717
