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One on One with Jim Chacharone
Jim Chacharone started a construction business in 1982, building single-family homes in the Worcester area, which eventually expanded to acquire commercial buildings. Chacharone Properties has
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Chacharone Properties adds solar panels to property
WORCESTER – Chacharone Properties, a local commercial property developer and manager, has partnered with Solect Energy to install a 650 kilowatt (kW) solar system on
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Worcester is Top 20 Metro Area
Construction cranes dot the Worcester’s skyline, a happy sign of economic resurgence for Central Massachusetts. More than $2 billion in real estate investments have recently
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New $11.5M Hampton Inn & Suites Hotel Project Under Way in Worcester
Worcester, MA – A new Hampton Inn & Suites hotel is currently under way in downtown Worcester at Gateway Park. The 100-room hotel, located at
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Worcester Opens Downtown Innovation Center in Former Telegram & Gazette Building
WORCESTER — With words of welcome and the swing of a cut ribbon, Worcester opened its doors to entrepreneurs on Monday with the official ribbon
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Winn Development set to buy Worcester’s former Unum building
WORCESTER — Winn Development Inc. has entered into an agreement to buy the former Unum Group office building at 18 Chestnut St.The company is eying
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Long a College Town, Worcester Now Looks the Part
WORCESTER, Mass. — Although College of the Holy Cross was founded here in 1843, and eight other prominent institutions of higher learning followed, it has
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The Comeback of Worcester’s Downtown
CITIES STRUGGLE when they’re built like doughnuts, with plenty of residents and office workers clustered on the periphery, and hollow space filling the center. This