Worcester Business Journal

14 Worcester Business Journal | September 4, 2023 | wbjournal.com Palliative Care —for improved quality of life. Our Adult Palliative Care Program serves patients living with serious illness with a focus on relieving pain or other distressing symptoms, assisting with advanced care planning, clarifying goals of care, and improving quality of life. Our team provides palliative care services in personal homes, other nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, or wherever patients call home throughout Central Massachusetts. 555-559 Plantation Street Worcester, MA 01605 508-852-5800 Contact us to learn more about the mission-driven, not-for- profit difference at Notre Dame Health Care. Notre Dame Palliative Care notredame healthcare.org Corazzini has seen"intentionality, particularly by the president, to ensure that the project is done right and that it's done in partnership with the community," he said. Since January 2022, Corazzini has been communicating with the businesses on the block and arranging transition plans with financial compensation for their relocations, he said, without specifying how much those compensation packages would be. ere are plans to begin meeting with student leaders and host a town hall in the fall. David Chearo, Clark's chief of staff and vice president for planning, said he's not sure how much the relationship has changed compared with 10 or 20 years ago because he arrived in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Overlapping for a year, Chearo worked closely with Jack Foley, Corazzini's predecessor and an architect of the Clark-CDC partnership. Foley retired in 2021 aer 45 years with the university; he could not be reached for this story. Chearo and Corazzini aren't the only newcomers to Clark's administration; all six of the university's vice presidents arrived with or aer President David Fithian took office in July 2020. Over Fithian's three-year tenure, Clark has broken ground on a new media arts center along Woodland and Hawthorne streets around the corner from the site of the proposed building. e school purchased a seven-acre vacant lot on Park Avenue, which Chearo said is likely to include an athletic center, adding the university really hasn't tested plans for housing there. "We're focused on continuity in the way in which we impact the community," Chearo said. "We're trying to stay within our existing footprint." Preparing for a new era Since the 1980s, Clark has owned the three buildings set for demolition, according to the Worcester District Registry of Deeds. e university F O C U S D I V E R S I T Y & I N C L U S I O N Email circulation@wbjournal.com for more information. WBJ Purchase a group subscription for your team or entire organization. Get access to WBJ for your entire team. Corazzini stands at the Worcester corner of Main Street and Jack Foley Way, where Clark's main campus ends in the Main South neighborhood. "Once those businesses are gone, they're not coming back." Steve Teasdale, executive director of the Main South CDC Continued from previous page PHOTO | MATT WRIGHT

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