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Below is a collection of news articles from various media
sources.
Date posted: 5/02/2008
Downtown Keystone site development plans move forward
NEW
BEDFORD — A Boston-based real estate firm has agreed to
buy the Union Street site of the former Keystone
Building that collapsed in 2004, was torn down and has
since left an ugly hole in the heart of downtown. [read
more]
Date
posted: 5/02/2008
Ferries buoyed by weak U.S. dollar
NEW BEDFORD — The weakness of the dollar is promising
strong returns for local ferry operators this year as
European travelers are signing on in record numbers to
take the fast ferry to Martha's Vineyard. [read
more]
Date
posted: 5/02/2008
Reborn flight training school set for takeoff in New
Bedford
NEW BEDFORD — Less than a year after the Delta Connection
Academy shut down, Bridgewater State College and the New Bedford
Regional Airport formally announced a bigger, better student
flight training program to open [read
more]
Date
posted: 5/02/2008
Hub of historic district rises from the ashes
NEW
BEDFORD — Ten years ago, a fire raged through the
historic Corson Building, causing the roof to cave in
and leaving little more than charred beams and shattered
glass. [read
more]
Date
posted: 5/02/2008
A Decade Later, "Brownfields" Law Transforming
Landscape
BOSTON -- Growing up in New Bedford, Henry Wainer
remembers driving past the old Alden Corrugated
Container Company on trips out of the city. Then one
day, the single-story cardboard box factory burned. [read
more]
Date
posted: 5/02/2008
New Bedford Pedicab launches service this spring
Any
day now, somewhere in New Bedford, you will be stuck in
traffic, and crossing your path will be a biker. Not
just any biker, but one that is pedaling their way
downtown with two happy non-car-driving passengers in
tow. [read
more]
Date posted: 4/17/2008
Breakfast Topic: Urban Employment and Development
Opportunities in the Green Economy
Van Jones, an eco-visionary, award-winning human rights
attorney and powerhouse speaker will be the main speaker a
breakfast Wednesday, April 23 at White’s of Westport. The theme
of the breakfast is [read
more]
Date posted: 4/17/2008
New Bedford's young dreamers
Elissa
Paquette was arranging a display of hand-printed shoes
and listening to Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" play
from her laptop when the doors of her boutique burst
open.
"Yay!" exclaimed customer Genevive Hunt [read
more]
Date posted: 4/17/2008
$5.7 million coming to city in harbor grants
The
port of New Bedford was awarded $5.5 million in its
largest harbor dredging grant ever by the state today,
along with funds to put into service the first fireboat
in modern port history. [read
more]
Date posted: 4/17/2008
AHA! Night celebrates city’s young artists, $60,000
grant
NEW
BEDFORD — Mosaics made of construction paper, chalk
drawings and watercolor paintings were among the
abundance of art on display around the city Thursday
night, showing the promise of New Bedford’s youngest
artists. [read
more]
Date posted: 4/17/2008
New Bedford's SouthCoast Control Engineering (SCCE)
expands and announces second company
NEW
BEDFORD, Mass. - - SouthCoast Control Engineering, Inc.,
(www.scceinc.com) announces the successful integration
of a second company, SouthCoast Machineworks, LLC, into
its Nash Pond Business Park design and [read
more]
Date posted: 4/07/2008
Short sea shipping the wave of the future?
A "perfect storm of opportunity" could drive the East Coast
to embrace short sea shipping and put ports such as New Bedford
and Fall River back on the map as significant players in moving
cargo up and down the Atlantic [read
more]
Date posted: 4/07/2008
New schools’
chief a 'perfect fit'
NEW
BEDFORD — A new beginning of "historic proportions"
starts this evening as Portia S. Bonner is formally
introduced to the city as its new superintendent of
schools. [read
more]
Date posted: 4/07/2008
New Bedford Business Park continues 'on a roll'
NEW BEDFORD — The Greater New Bedford Industrial Foundation —
which created and operates the New Bedford Business Park —
reported Wednesday that 2007 was another year of success in
drawing and expanding businesses [read
more]
Date posted: 4/07/2008
Seafood market up and running in city's South End
NEW
BEDFORD — If Peter Martone has what it takes to strike
gold selling fish off a truck in New Bedford — which he
acknowledges as the "mecca of seafood" — his new
South End fish market and seafood restaurant [read
more]
Date posted: 4/07/2008
Developers spark talk of growth with Energy Park
NEW BEDFORD — A small industrial park in North Dartmouth
that has sat largely under-developed for almost 20 years is
about to come into its own as Energy Park — a place where
companies that generate energy from [read
more]
Date posted: 3/20/2008
Kerry sees New Bedford firm scoot'n along
NEW
BEDFORD — Massachusetts' Harley-Davidson-riding U.S.
Senator John F. Kerry got on an all-electric scooter
here Monday and proclaimed it a vehicle of the future.
[read
more]
Date posted: 3/20/2008
City’s Zeiterion Performing Arts Center receives
$250,000 Bank of America grant
NEW BEDFORD — Robert E. Gallery took to the Zeiterion
Theatre stage Wednesday — the same stage that George
Jessel and Rudolph Valentino stepped out on decades ago
— in the glow of carefully staged lighting.
[read
more]
Date posted: 3/20/2008
Irish delegation visits area businesses
An
Irish delegation visited two of the region's best-known
manufacturers Tuesday, as they looked for ways to
improve economic opportunities back home.
[read
more]
Date posted: 3/20/2008
New
Bedford seafood exports satisfy European market
BOSTON,
Mass. - March 13, 2008 - As a recession appears
increasingly likely nationally, Massachusetts businesses
are battening down to wait out the storm.
[read
more]
Date posted: 3/20/2008
SouthCoast chamber president building strong support
NEW
BEDFORD — For 22 years, James "call me Jim" Mathes and
"Chamber of Commerce" were practically synonymous on
SouthCoast. Mr. Mathes, smiling and outgoing, was the
local chamber and the local chamber was
[read
more]
Date posted: 3/05/2008
Economic summit and business roundtable fosters
public-private partnerships
NEW BEDFORD — State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill and city
officials hung out an "open for business" sign on the
city Tuesday, making a pitch to create new
public-private partnerships to a group of bankers [read
more]
Date posted: 3/05/2008
Upper Acushnet workshop unveils boathouse, other
plans
NEW BEDFORD — Friday night and Saturday belonged to the
upper Acushnet River dreamers and true believers in an
old industrial neighborhood where pessimism about
economic development and revitalization have [read
more]
Date posted: 3/05/2008
City woman leaves corporate America to manage
downtown boutique
When
Celia Britto opened her boutique in the former Cherry
and Webb building in 2003, she had scouted locations at
the mall, surrounding towns and elsewhere in the city.
But it was the downtown area that she found was [read
more]
Date posted: 3/05/2008
International seafood buyers visit waterfront
NEW BEDFORD — A group of international fish buyers spent
Tuesday on the city's waterfront and then got a lesson
in the science of scallops — being told that marine
science led to "best practices" that increased scallop [read
more]
Date posted: 3/05/2008
Quest Center company partners with UMass
“Small,
smart and powerful,” are a few of the adjectives UMass
Dartmouth Marine Science Professor Louis Goodman uses to
describe the new device he is building to gather data
from the ocean. [read
more]
Date posted: 2/08/2008
Public visioning workshop planned for city’s upper
harbor
New
Bedford’s upper harbor, north of Coggeshall Street, is
home to one of the most intact collections of historic
mill buildings and environmental beauty to be found
anywhere. While the working waterfront’s piers and [read
more]
Date posted: 2/08/2008
City and UMass Dartmouth partnership connects
students with downtown
The
UMass Dartmouth Division of Student Affairs and the City
of New Bedford have launched a pilot bus loop from the
North Dartmouth campus to downtown New Bedford for the
spring semester to give students the [read
more]
Date posted: 2/08/2008
NBEDC strengthens startup business support on website
City specific permitting and licensing information
easily available
The New Bedford Economic Development Council
announced the expansion of its website to include a
series of easily accessible online tools aimed at
guiding new business owners through the process of
starting [read
more]
Date posted: 2/08/2008
MSBDC announces hiring new business advisor;
Co-sponsors marketing workshop series
The
Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network
(MSBDC) – Southeast Regional Office is expanding again
due to an increase in funding. Representative Michael J.
Rodrigues (D-Westport), a strong supporter [read
more]
Date posted: 1/18/2008
Ze-gen plans clean energy plant in New Bedford
Ze-gen, a company which has a process for converting
municipal waste into electricity, has raised $2.5
million to fund construction of its first full-scale
plant. [read
more]
Date posted: 1/18/2008
Wholly mackerel: City plant works tirelessly to
deliver popular fish overseas
NEW BEDFORD — For the next four months, the Norpel plant
on Fish Island will operate around the clock to freeze
and box whole mackerel bound for Nigeria, Egypt, Poland
and other foreign markets. [read
more]
Date posted: 1/18/2008
New manager named for airport
NEW BEDFORD — A Falmouth
man with a background in law, Coast Guard aviation and
experience in the public and private sectors has been
named manager of the New Bedford Regional Airport. [read
more]
Date posted: 1/18/2008
Deal reached for 100-room waterfront hotel
NEW BEDFORD — A
100-room "mid-scale" hotel is planned to open just over
a year from now on a 1.6-acre parcel on the waterfront,
developers and city officials confirmed Wednesday. [read
more]
Date posted: 1/18/2008
Job outlook remains steady, but those without
education, training will face tougher prospects
In
spite of recession threats on the horizon, the job front
in Massachusetts is slowly rising, according to state
and local experts. Massachusetts had an increase
of 25,000 new jobs statewide in 2007, and an [read
more]
Date posted: 1/18/2008
NBEDC Names Senior Lending Officer
Executive
Director Matthew A. Morrissey announced the appointment
of Ramon Silva to serve as Senior Lending Officer of the
New Bedford Economic Development Council. Mr. Silva
joined the staff January 14th. [read
more]
Date posted: 12/12/2007
Master plan for Hicks-Logan redevelopment nearing
completion
NEW BEDFORD — A master plan for the redevelopment of the
Hicks-Logan neighborhood is a step closer to being
adopted after it was presented at a public meeting
Tuesday night... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/12/2007
Brooke Ocean Technology USA receives STTR contract
Brooke Ocean Technology USA Inc. is teaming up with
Professor Louis Goodman at the University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth’s School of Marine Science and
Technology and VCT Inc. on a project entitled... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/12/2007
New
Bedford scalloper and fishing industry featured in
Boston Globe
When Captain Ewa Liput and her six-man crew cast off
from Fairhaven for Georges Bank, the fishing grounds
east of Cape Cod and south of the Gulf of Maine, she
steers the 98-foot scallop boat Quincy II... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/12/2007
City
officials tour commuter rail options
Local officials hoping for a quicker commuter rail
connection from New Bedford to Boston got a first-hand
look at some of the difficulties of linking to the
Middleboro line... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/12/2007
New
Bedford adds 415 new jobs over five year period – defies
statewide pattern
New Bedford and Brockton may have missed much of the
wave of high-tech jobs in the past decade or two, but a
new study finds the two cities also avoided a
decade-long drain in high-tech jobs that afflicted... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/12/2007
Buttonwood Park Zoo holiday concert brings out local
musicians of all ages
The Buttonwood Park Zoo hosted the first New Bedford
performance of Merry TubaChristmas as local tuba and
euphonium players of all ages performed Christmas tunes
under the direction of special guest... [read
more]
Date posted: 11/21/2007
City streamlines
permitting process
New Bedford is making its permitting process faster and more
efficient in order to expand and attract businesses
Cumbersome permitting processes frequently delay or
permanently halt development projects. States and municipalities
throughout the nation have taken measures to lessen the
impediments that have long...
[read
more]
Date posted: 11/21/2007
Experts:
Opportunities abound for seafood exports to Europe
Export specialists urged New Bedford seafood suppliers
to capitalize on the demand in European markets for products
such as live lobster, squid, scallops and mackerel.
[read
more]
Date posted: 11/21/2007
Vectrix expands,
relocates NB operations
NEW BEDFORD — Vectrix Corporation, maker of the world's first
high performance, two-wheel zero emission vehicle ZEV, will
begin working out of its new location this week in New Bedford
Business Park.
[read
more]
Date posted: 11/21/2007
City retains 300
jobs in South End
Eagle Industries of St. Louis, Missouri, today announced its
purchase of the Michael Bianco manufacturing facility in New
Bedford effective today. Eagle will be drawing on the skills of
the current workforce at the...
[read
more]
Date posted: 11/21/2007
NBEDC, business
community and higher education leaders help City search for
superintendent of schools
Business owners and educators gathered at the New
Bedford Economic Development Council office to participate in
the search process for the next Superintendent of New Bedford
Schools. Hosted by business... [read
more]
Date posted: 10/12/2007
City’s
revitalization project garners Boston Globe’s front page
NEW BEDFORD - In the mid-1900s, industries tossed tons
of hazardous materials into New Bedford Harbor,
transforming the once-pristine haven into one of the
most polluted harbors in the country.
[read
more]
Date posted: 10/12/2007
Work on
permitting continues with release of entrepreneur’s
guide
Pioneer Institute, Mayor Lang and the NBEDC announce
step by step guide
New Bedford, Massachusetts- With the recent release of a
new comprehensive guide to small business development in
the city of New Bedford, entrepreneurs have access to a
business friendly guide that will assist them...
[read
more]
Date posted: 10/12/2007
Sovereign Bank expands New Bedford call center
Sovereign Bank announced recently the expansion of its
call center in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The bank will
increase the call center’s second shift, which operates
in the evening hours until 11 p.m. EST.
[read
more]
Date posted: 10/12/2007
Darn It!
A company’s transformation retains jobs
An “Extreme Makeover” of Ronnie Manufacturing in 1996
transformed the 35-year-old contract clothing business
into a unique operation that solves quality control and
logistical problems caused by offshore manufacturing.
[read
more]
Date posted: 10/12/2007
VIEW:
The old city is new again
A woman living in one of New Bedford's senior high-rises
got all excited a few years ago when she told a
Standard-Times reporter about the way things used to be
downtown. She didn't live in the city center back
then...
[read
more]
Date posted: 10/12/2007
Robert
F. Kennedy, Jr. event kicks off Bioneers by the Bay
conference with a free lecture at the Zeiterion
The City of New Bedford will host a special kickoff
event featuring a presentation by lifelong champion of
conservation and environmental business practices,
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to launch the...
[read
more]
Date posted: 09/24/2007
What
is happening Downtown?
Downtown New Bedford’s evolving streetscape reflects a
national, even international, trend: downtowns are
increasingly the place to be. As long ago as nearly a
decade ago, the Fannie Mae Foundation... [read
more]
Date posted: 09/24/2007
South
End of New Bedford – Reclaimed Berkshire Hathaway Mills
provide space for hundreds of jobs
A diverse mix of 40 manufacturing, office and industrial
tenants occupy the former Berkshire Hathaway mills and
there’s still substantial space available for sale or
rent, according to Roland Letendre, developer... [read
more]
Date posted: 09/24/2007
2007
Working Waterfront Festival: an authentic success
AThe 2007 Working Waterfront Festival took place in New
Bedford, America’s largest commercial fishing port, this
past Saturday and Sunday. This free, family-friendly
event opened the waterfront to the public... [read
more]
Date posted: 09/24/2007
Teledyne
chooses New Bedford for nuclear users conference…AGAIN
For the second year, the City of New Bedford was the
first choice for the annual Quiklook Users Group Meeting
hosted by Teledyne Instruments Test Services, a Marion
company with New Bedford roots... [read
more]
Date posted: 09/24/2007
Fast
ferry pilot tests New Bedford – Woods Hole connection
around marine science and technology
NEW BEDFORD — Mayor Scott W. Lang called it a "sleigh
ride," an over-in-a-blink transit from State Pier to
Woods Hole to show local media the wonders of a watery
shortcut to the "transportation hub" of Cape Cod... [read
more]
Date posted: 09/24/2007
New
Bedford tells its story in creative ways
By DON CUDDY
Standard Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD — With a fine easterly breeze filling their
sails, the line of classic yachts gliding through the
hurricane barrier lent an air of gentility to the New
Bedford waterfront Wednesday afternoon... [read
more]
Date posted: 09/24/2007
Another
film company comes to New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD — The men appeared dapper, the women,
poised, as they strolled down Acushnet Avenue, dressed
in Victorian clothing. Several men walked hurriedly down
the cobblestone street, perhaps late for a business... [read
more]
Date posted: 08/20/2007
Classic
Yacht Cruise to arrive in New Bedford Harbor Wednesday,
August 22
A flotilla of some 25 classic sail and powerboats will
parade in company through the New Bedford hurricane
barrier between 2 and 4 PM on Wednesday, August 22 and
will layover in the harbor... [read
more]
Date posted: 08/20/2007
Hopes
grow for hotel in New Bedford
After nearly 40 years without a hotel downtown or along
the nearby waterfront, it looks as though New Bedford
might finally get one. Lafrance Hospitality Co. is
in the process of negotiating a purchase and sale
agreement... [read
more]
Date posted: 08/20/2007
City
economic development leaders pursue employer input
Beginning in September, the Lang Administration and the
New Bedford Economic Development Council are embarking
on an ambitious series of meetings to share ideas and
receive feedback from... [read
more]
Date posted: 08/20/2007
NBEDC
seeks to broaden its business base
The New Bedford Economic Development Council voted
unanimously on August 15 to broaden its base of Council
members to “at least 75”; to form working groups in
focus areas of the City’s economic development... [read
more]
Date posted: 08/20/2007
Two new
staff members join the NBEDC
Executive Director Matthew A. Morrissey announced the
addition of two new staff members to the New Bedford
Economic Development Council (NBEDC). Derek Santos
has accepted an offer for the position... [read
more]
Date posted: 08/08/2007
August 9th grand opening helps build up-scale cluster
in Downtown New Bedford
A premier clothing boutique with designer labels, for
both men and women, found in the most prominent fashion
districts of Boston, Los Angeles and New York,
celebrates its grand opening on AHA! Night this coming
Thursday... [read
more]
Date posted: 08/08/2007
City to test waters for ferry service
NEW
BEDFORD — Twice-a-day ferry service between State Pier
and Woods Hole starts Monday, a four-month trial run for
a possible permanent relinking of the two ports after
more than four decades... [read
more]
Date posted: 08/08/2007
Tapping into the market: Local firms profit by taking
a risk, helping environment
It is said that New Bedford once "lit the world" with
whale oil and spermaceti candles procured and produced
by the city's whaling industry, which thrived in the
first-half of the 19th century only to collapse in
the... [read
more]
Date posted: 07/25/2007
Ze-gen, Inc.
Hosts Ribbon Cutting at Demonstration Facility in New Bedford
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ze-gen, Inc., a clean energy
company providing advanced gasification technology to convert
waste streams into synthetic natural gas and low emissions
electrical energy, is hosting a ribbon... [read
more]
Date posted: 07/25/2007
Betting on
the arts to revitalize the city
Lori Bradley recognizes the impact the creative economy is
making in New Bedford. As a ceramics/mixed-media artist and as
part owner of a six-artist cooperative gallery downtown – MOSAIC
Gallery, which opened... [read
more]
Date posted: 07/25/2007
New Bedford
holds onto title as richest fishing port
New Bedford fishermen hauled in $281.2 million worth of seafood
in 2006 to capture the title of the nation's most valuable port
for the seventh year in a row, according to a report released
Thursday by NOAA Fisheries... [read
more]
Date posted: 07/25/2007
New task
force studies alternative energy
NEW BEDFORD — Mayor Scott W. Lang has launched a new
task force to advise him in making the city more
energy-efficient and environmentally friendly. The group
is charged with identifying "things that New Bedford... [read
more]
Date posted: 07/25/2007
Mayor Names
New Director of Tourism & Marketing
Mayor Scott W. Lang has appointmented Ms. Ann Marie
Lopes as the new director of the New Bedford Office of Tourism
and Marketing. After reviewing a pool of 18 different
applicants, the City Tourism and Marketing Director... [read
more]
Date posted: 07/03/2007
City
engages prominent state agency on economic development
and planning
A state planning and finance agency that specializes in
spurring economic development in difficult environments
has agreed to assist in the development of the city's
long-struggling waterfront... [read
more]
Date posted: 07/03/2007
New
Bedford is open for business: Mayor announces permitting
overhaul
New Bedford, Massachusetts- Mayor Scott W. Lang
announced on June 28th a two-stage initiative to
streamline the City permitting process to make it easily
understandable and accessible for citizens as well as to... [read
more]
Date posted: 07/03/2007
Scallop stocks in good shape; good news for New Bedford
Northeast sea scallop stocks have been rebuilt to
sustainable levels and taken off a list of fish species
regulators are legally required to manage back to
healthy populations, according to a new report... [read
more]
Date posted: 07/03/2007
City
continues to work on job retention
NEW BEDFORD — For the third time in as many weeks,
Revere Copper and Brass has rejected the offer of an
Ohio company to purchase part of its copper plating
business. Mayor Scott W. Lang, however, insisted
Monday... [read
more]
Date posted: 07/03/2007
Wamsutta Mills owner seeks economic potential in
redeveloping former Cliftex Mill
NEW BEDFORD — In a move that may save a historic mill,
the developer of the Wamsutta Mills is interested in
buying the Cliftex Mill from owner Edward Fitzsimmons
for more than $1 million... [read
more]
Date posted: 06/18/2007
Hotel
proposed for New Bedford waterfront
After years of false starts, a major, national hotel
chain is apparently coming to downtown New Bedford.
Lafrance Hospitality Co. of Westport, the owner of four hotels,
including the Hampton Inns in Westport and... [read
more]
Date posted: 06/18/2007
Crime in
city down through May compared to a year ago
Violent crime in the Whaling City is down in every category for
the first five months of the year compared to last year, and
property crime is down in every category except larceny,
according to city statistics... [read
more]
Date posted: 06/18/2007
Retail
developer eyes project in city's Hicks-Logan area
A major national retail developer that owns the
Dartmouth Mall and 55 other malls across the country has
partnered with a casino developer to develop 30 or more acres in
the Hicks-Logan section of the city... [read
more]
Date posted: 06/18/2007
Entrepreneur opens downtown cosmetic boutique
With a solid background in corporate sales and a life
long love of makeup, Larissa McLaughlin has rediscovered that
her hometown is a great place to set up a new cosmetic boutique
business, the Blush Beauty Bar... [read
more]
Date posted: 06/18/2007
Fast
Ferry reports increase in advance bookings
As the New England Fast Ferry enters the fourth year of its
eight-year licensing agreement to link New Bedford with Martha's
Vineyard, the outlook is bright, according to company President
Michael Glasfeld... [read
more]
Date posted: 04/30/2007
Another diverse company to call New Bedford home
New
Bedford, Mass. -- It is said that one man’s trash is
another man’s treasure, and for Harry and Jeanine James,
owners of New England Demolition & Salvage (NEDS),
it is a saying that their company swears by... [read
more]
Date posted: 04/30/2007
Infusion of culture helps change perception and
reality in SouthCoast
When
silversmith and designer Joost During, 36, arrived in the United
States from Holland 10 years ago, he first settled in
Rhode Island. But early last year, he and his wife
Dianne Reilly, 40, who also works in metal... [read
more]
Date posted: 04/30/2007
State reports unemployment down in SouthCoast
NEW BEDFORD — Unemployment dropped across the state in
March, including Greater New Bedford, which improved by
almost 2 percentage points, the Massachusetts Department
of Workforce Development... [read
more]
Date posted: 04/30/2007
NBEDC loan officer wins SBA award for women-owned
business advocacy
Nancy
Gibeau, New Bedford Economic Development Council senior loan
officer, has been selected to receive the US Small
Business Administration’s 2007 Massachusetts and New
England Women in Business Advocate... [read
more]
Date posted: 04/17/2007
SouthCoast rail planned for 2016
Trains would be rolling to Fall River and New Bedford by
December 2016 — nearly a decade from now — under a
commuter rail plan Gov. Deval Patrick will announce at
UMass Dartmouth today, according to sources familiar...
[read
more]
Date posted: 04/17/2007
City
hopes scallops will hook buyers
The world could be New Bedford's oyster. Or at least
provide a wider market for its scallops. That's what
economic officials are hoping as they explore ways to
better promote the port's fresh and frozen seafood
products... [read
more]
Date posted: 04/17/2007
Committee backs lofty mill project
Development plan includes hotel, marina, condominiums
NEW BEDFORD — An ambitious plan that includes building a
hotel, office and condos over a Home Depot-led retail
project has been recommended by the committee
considering two development proposals at Fairhaven
Mills... [read
more]
Date posted: 04/17/2007
Real
estate developers find treasures in downtown New Bedford
New Bedford – Two real estate developers have recently
made major investments in New Bedford’s downtown with
the purchase of a building in the middle of the Whaling
National Historic Park at Five Dover Street and... [read
more]
Date posted: 04/05/2007
The City of New Bedford and the New
Bedford Economic Development Council announce major loan
recapitalization
NEW BEDFORD – Mayor Scott W. Lang and New Bedford
Economic Development Council executive director Matthew A.
Morrissey announced a $4,645,000 million recapitalization of the
NBEDC loan pool that supports... [read
more]
Date posted: 04/05/2007
2007 NBEDC Annual Meeting reports
increased activity with plans for more
Over 150 people gathered for the New Bedford Economic
Development Council 2007 Annual Meeting at the Joseph Abboud
Manufacturing site on March 20. Present at the meeting were,
business owners who have benefited... [read
more]
Date posted: 04/05/2007
Science and technology jobs could
employ thousands
By Becky W. Evans
Standard-Times staff writer
A decade from now, SouthCoast could emerge as a leader
in biotechnology, medical devices, marine science and
technology, alternative energy and environmental science.
Matthew A. Morrissey, executive director.... [read
more]
Date posted: 04/05/2007
International seafood buyers tour
New Bedford
Over 45 international seafood buyers, mainly from Europe and
Asia, participating in the 2007 International Boston Seafood
Show, toured New Bedford to meet with some of the area's leading
seafood companies... [read
more]
Date posted: 04/05/2007
BCC pitches expansion plan for New
Bedford campus
BOSTON — Bristol Community College is hoping to at least
double its student enrollment in New Bedford next year from
1,200 to 2,400 students under a $1.2 million plan for more
classroom space that BCC.... [read
more]
Date posted: 04/05/2007
Cork enlivens Downtown
Step into Cork, New Bedford's first wine and tapas bar.
Inside, the eye glides smoothly over dark wood and exposed stone
walls. Other nightspots hang their decorating schemes on
colored pendant lights over the bar... [read
more]
Date posted: 03/14/2007
New Bedford makes it to final
round in National Wind Test blade facility site selection
Massachusetts and Texas are battling for a federally backed
wind blade test facility, Energy and Environmental Affairs
Secretary Ian Bowles said he learned today... [read
more]
Date posted: 03/14/2007
A vision for short sea shipping
Shipments of Florida oranges and New Bedford scallops
would soon move from the road to the sea if a new mode of
shipping domestic goods takes hold... [read
more]
Date posted: 03/14/2007
Another high tech success story
for New Bedford
New Bedford. They don’t do high tech there, it’s a
fishing town. And a murder capital. You know. The Foxy Lady,
Puzzles Lounge, that kid of stuff... [read
more]
Date posted: 03/14/2007
New Bedford selected to host
prestigious yacht cruise layover
The International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS) of
Newport RI announced last week its annual Classic Yacht Cruise
schedule–which includes a first–a two night layover in New
Bedford Harbor... [read
more]
Date posted: 03/14/2007
Learn about resources available to
help grow and strengthen your business
Three agencies have come together to demonstrate the
resources available to help grow and strengthen your business.
The Greater New Bedford Career Center in partnership with the
Massachusetts Office of Business... [read
more]
Date posted: 02/19/2007
New Bedford demonstrates strong financial position
New
Bedford - Moody’s Investor Services upgraded the City of New
Bedford bond rating to “A3,” marking the first time in 37 years
that New Bedford has received an “A” rating. In a report
outlining Moody’s opinion... [read
more]
Date posted: 02/19/2007
City moves forward with Fairhaven Mills redevelopment
NEW
BEDFORD — The most controversial parcel in the city took a major
step toward development yesterday, as bids of $1 million and
$200,000 were submitted for the Fairhaven Mills property.
Urban Investments Associates... [read
more]
Date posted: 02/19/2007
New Bedford Fishing Fleet number one again
NEW
BEDFORD — New Bedford is the No. 1 money-making fishing port in
the nation for the sixth consecutive year. New Bedford
fishermen landed $282.5 million in fish in 2005, an increase of
$75 million from 2004... [read
more]
Date posted: 02/19/2007
New Antiques District Buds in South End
New
Bedford - New Bedford Mayor Scott W. Lang, joined City Council
President Leo Pimental, Executive Director of the New Bedford
Economic Development Council Matthew Morrissey, and the new
owners of... [read
more]
Date posted: 02/19/2007
State awards another Adams grant to AHA!
For
a third consecutive year, New Bedford’s AHA!
(Art-History-Architecture) project has been awarded a
significant cultural economic grant from the Commonwealth’s Mass
Cultural Council (MCC). The award of.... [read
more]
Date posted: 02/19/2007
City forges partnership with UMD business school around New
Bedford economy
The
Charlton College of Business recently partnered with New Bedford
Mayor Scott Lang's office on an exciting approach to problem
solving. In January 2007, a group of 14 UMass Dartmouth master
of business administration... [read
more]
Date posted: 01/30/2007
Suit Maker Goes 'Lean' to Keep
Jobs in U.S.
If you check the tag on a men's suit these days, chances are
it says "made in China" or Mexico — maybe even Hungary.
But if the suit is a Joseph Abboud, it still says "Made in
America." In fact, the company... [read
more]
Date posted: 01/30/2007
Made in New Bedford: a suit
designer retools
Last year the Joseph Abboud suit factory did something not seen
in at least a decade in this old textile capital: It added jobs.
The men's suit designer expanded its workforce nearly 20 percent
to 590 employees... [read
more]
Date posted: 01/30/2007
City’s marine and science
technology Quest Center graduates its first company
After six months, company remains rooted in New Bedford. A
new marine technology firm that sells underwater electrical
connectors is leaving the nest today to grow and prosper on its
own... [read
more]
Date posted: 01/30/2007
City advances drive toward job
creation in emerging alternative energy sector
Ze-gen, a Boston-based alternative energy company, is
constructing a “proof of concept” facility in New Bedford to
advance its technology by testing the conversion of
waste-to-energy. Ze-gen’s technology... [read
more]
Date posted: 01/30/2007
UMass students study business in
New Bedford
Sixteen graduate students from the University of
Massachusetts–Dartmouth Charlton School of Business, worked
closely with Mayor Scott W. Lang’s office and the New Bedford
Economic Development Council on a month-long project aimed at
improving the business climate throughout the city... [read
more]
Date posted: 01/04/2007
City builds toward alternative energy sector for job creation
With a continuing national need for research
into the realm of wind-powered energy, a site selection
committee has dwindled a list of potential large-scale blade
testing facility sites down to... [read
more]
Date posted: 01/04/2007
NBEDC, City help Nutex retain nearly 35 jobs
A dark cloud lifted for the 35 or so employees at Nutex Industries in the South End yesterday after the company
emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
For months, the company had operated under... [read
more]
Date posted: 01/04/2007
Local market promotes high-end handcrafted items
Bringing
shoppers downtown once a month on Saturdays to the NBopenmarket
has grown from an idea to reality with an initial 15 vendors
that more than doubled over the course of four months. “The
NBopenmarket is modeled on a flea market, but it’s much more
than that. All the items are high-end, fine crafts. Everything
is handmade. You won’t see machine-made mass produced items,”
explained organizer Elissa Paquette... [read
more]
Date posted: 01/04/2007
Wareham woman to head city's troubled harbor commission
Mayor Scott W. Lang has appointed Kristin Decas of
Wareham as the new executive director of the Harbor Development
Commission, which is fraught with financial and management
problems... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/13/2006
Business park on upswing
NEW BEDFORD — The New Bedford Business Park had the best
year in its history in 2006, with six companies either
relocating or expanding in the park, and three new roads
allowing for more to come. Tom Davis, executive director of the
Greater New Bedford Industrial Foundation, said the park never
had more than four new or... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/13/2006
Region willing to work
Rick Barisano braves the frigid temperatures as he works around
the foundation at the future site of the T.G.I. Friday’s
restaurant in the new Target plaza in Dartmouth. A study
released today shows that SouthCoast has posted positive growth
in its labor force, despite falling numbers statewide... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/13/2006
Hangar OK'd for Delta
flight school
NEW BEDFORD — The City Council set the city on the runway to
an improved airport last night, but chose not to rev its engines
too quickly. The council's Finance Committee (a committee of the
entire council) approved $1.1 million in bonding authority for a
new hangar for the Delta flight school. The committee, however,
chose not to... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/13/2006
Regional leaders discuss
economics with Patrick's transition team
NEW BEDFORD — Seeing a rare opportunity to influence economic
development policy, dozens of SouthCoast business leaders,
planning officials, educators and politicians packed a UMass
Dartmouth Star Store campus classroom yesterday for a public
forum with Gov.-elect Deval Patrick's transition team... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/13/2006
Lang mulls options on rail
New Bedford Mayor Scott W. Lang has quietly begun exploring
the possibility of connecting the long-sought SouthCoast
commuter rail line to the Lakeville/Middleboro station.
Mayor Lang says the connection might be more economical and have
New Bedford-Boston trains running sooner than waiting for
construction of the preferred... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/13/2006
Freezer ship to unload in
city
The new year will bring a 350-foot freezer ship into the port of
New Bedford to unload frozen herring and mackerel caught in
offshore waters by a fleet of up to nine trawlers that are too
small to carry the fish back to shore safely... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/04/2006
Share economic development ideas with Governor-Elect
Patrick’s job’s task force
Please come to a meeting to help Governor-Elect Deval
Patrick’s administration set its strategy for business
growth and economic development. The Governor-Elect has
formed a number of task forces to assist him in
developing policy around key issues that impact our
state... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/04/2006
National development firms see value and opportunity
in the City
From the company renovating Fenway Park to
a major builder redeveloping a Maine zoo, the would-be
owners of the former Fairhaven Mills are circling the
city's waterfront.
Some 28 parties have taken out proposals for the city
properties at the long-controversial mill site,
including prominent developers from Baltimore, Boston
and Springfield... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/04/2006
New antiques and architectural salvage district in
city
Two expansive antiques showrooms will soon
be located in the South End, marking what some hope will
be the emergence of the city as a regional antiques
center.
The New Bedford Antiques, located in the Fairhaven Mills
for the past 20 years, will close tomorrow and relocate
(under new ownership) to the Family Furniture and Carpet... [read
more]
Date posted: 12/04/2006
New Bedford’s level of activity justifies hotel
The report, funded by the New Bedford Economic
Development Council, concluded the city's corporations and
tourism industry could support an 80-room "boutique" hotel or a
100-room "franchise-affiliated" hotel. Rooms should be priced in
the range of $100 to $110, the report said, which would make the
hotel competitive with hotels... [read
more]
Date posted: 11/15/2006
New energy continues to build through the South End
Iris Colon and Michelle O'Brien, both of New Bedford,
and Vicki Lavoie of Carver take to the dance floor on a
Friday night at Club Altitude.
Saturday is the night to find a packed dance floor at
Altitude, the new club in New Bedford's South End.
On a recent Friday, the scene was more relaxed. Dancers
didn't hit the floor until 11:30... [read
more]
Date posted: 11/15/2006
Canada and the Commonwealth – strong economic
partners
The New Bedford Economic Development Council
participated in the “Trade, Tourism, and the Border”
conference held at the Shaw’s Center in Brockton, Mass.
on October 25, 2006. The event was sponsored by the New
England-Canada Business Council, the Canadian Consulate
General of Boston and Bridgewater State College... [read
more]
Date posted: 11/15/2006
New York Times highlights
New Bedford…..again
At noon every Jan. 3, the words “Call me Ishmael” sound
through the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Mass. It’s
the beginning of the annual marathon reading of
“Moby-Dick,” which will go on for 25 hours or so, until
the last reader utters “Finis.” It’s been a long
time since a whaling ship sailed out of New Bedford, and even
longer... [read
more]
Date posted: 11/15/2006
Ribbon cut on new mill complex
A $34 million renovation of one of the
city's largest and most historically significant mills
was launched yesterday before an assemblage of business
leaders and politicians. Construction is scheduled to
last 18 months.
The Residences at Wamsutta Place will consist of 250
one- and two-bedroom condominiums and... [read
more]
Date posted: 10/23/2006
New Bedford Economic Development Council unanimously
selects Morrissey as permanent Executive Director
New Bedford, Massachusetts - The New Bedford Economic
Development Council unanimously voted today to appoint Matthew
Morrissey to the position of executive director. Morrissey, who
was nominated for the post by a search committee of local
business leaders, has been serving as interim executive director
of the private, non-profit organization since September... [read
more]
Date posted: 10/23/2006
Bioneers by the Bay conference hosts internationally
acclaimed gathering of scientific and social innovators
The three-day conference featured workshops on renewable
energy systems; new paradigms in business; native
ecology; healthy food; youth leadership; holistic
health; sustainable communities; a Youth Initiative
program; and much more. Callum Grieve, executive
director for the Marion Institute explains... [read
more]
Date posted: 10/23/2006
Yankee Magazine focuses on legendary and local
horticultural business
Small stones crunch beneath David Haskell’s boots as he
strolls along a shady path amid Allen C. Haskell
Horticulturists in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Son of
the late genius plantsman Allen Haskell, David now
presides over the seven-acre retail nursery and landscape design
business created by his father over the past 50 years. The
nursery, which draws plant lovers from all over the world,
includes the city’s oldest house, a Colonial structure dating
back to 1725... [read
more]
Date posted: 10/23/2006
Small
Business Innovation Research Seminar to be held at Quest
Center
A seminar focused on the Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR), a federal grant program that funds
research projects by small business, will be offered on
October 26 at the Quest Center in New Bedford,
Massachusetts. The goal of the seminar is to instruct
small business owners of the region how to not only
access funding through SBIR, but how to manage an SBIR
award if an application is successful... [read
more]
Date posted: 10/23/2006
State-wide media giving New Bedford a fresh look
New Bedford is a down-to-earth city that has always gone
down to the sea. Herman Melville memorialized its
whalers in "Moby-Dick," and Ahab, Starbuck , and
Queequeg still cast long shadows on those Quaker streets
of uneven granite paving stones. But today's stars of the
waterfront are mostly Portuguese... [read
more]
Date posted: 10/05/2006
NBEDC Client company is growing!
A medical device manufacturer in the New Bedford Business Park
has purchased a Taunton company and will bring its 50 jobs into
the city. Five Star Surgical Inc., which repairs and
refurbishes medical equipment in a newly expanded facility,
purchased a company that manufactures specialty equipment for
knee and hip replacements. The Taunton company being purchased
was not named by Five Star Surgical... [read
more]
Date posted: 10/05/2006
NBEDC Client, Adega restaurant
enlivening Rivet Street!
I’m going to write this review in the reverse order of events as
they occurred. The reason being, under normal circumstances, I
thought the chef/owner would have greeted me and my guest
walking into his very cool establishment, instead of chasing us
out the door and into the street at Goulart Square, located
at... [read
more]
Date posted: 10/05/2006
New Bedford celebrates
small business success!
Six New Bedford businesses were awarded for their
success at the New Bedford Economic Development Council
Third Annual Small Business Awards Dinner the held
September 27 at the Hawthorne Country Club. “We consider
the annual awards dinner as a kind of graduation
ceremony. The owners of these businesses have
successfully... [read
more]
Date posted: 10/05/2006
Route 18 redesign project back on track!
The redesign of Route 18 has been studied from the days
prior to the completion of the new roadway in the 1970s. In
January 2006 Mayor Scott W. Lang formed a project team to
kick-start the long-stalled project. This project team is made
up of staff from key city departments, Waterfront Historic Area
League (WHALE)... [read
more]
Date posted: 09/14/2006
From Nickels & Dimes to the
Federal Reserve
Forty-one children from the YMCA summer day camp participated in
the Savings Makes Cents Program implemented as part of the NBEDC
Community Outreach program with the help of Downtown New Bedford
Inc, Citizens Union Savings Bank, Community Development, and the
Economic Stabilization Trust...[read
more]
Date posted: 09/14/2006
Come to the City's first Chowder
Fest!
By now word has probably reached you about Downtown New
Bedford, Inc.’s efforts to put together a first class annual
chowder festival in the center of the city. This will be no
ordinary event. It will be an extraordinary new event that will
rival similar tasting festivals in other parts of the country,
with a strong annual following. Of course I am referring to the
1st Annual New Bedford Seaport Chowder Festival...[read
more]
Date posted: 09/14/2006
Lang's Plea Helps Keep NuTex
Afloat
NEW BEDFORD — A small textile company in the city's South
End has staved off a shutdown — at least until November — thanks
to the intervention of the city and Mayor Scott W. Lang.
Since 1982, NuTex Industries Inc., located in the former
Furniture City mill on West Rodney French Boulevard, has
manufactured woven textiles used to make belts and suspenders,
as well as webbing products that have military and medical uses...[read
more]
Date posted: 09/14/2006
World Renown Design Firm Makes New
Bedford Its Home
C. Raymond Hunt Associates, one of the most widely recognized
and respected names in naval architecture, has located its
Design Office in the historic district in downtown New Bedford.
“We are delighted to be in New Bedford. The city has tremendous
history and a wonderful future ahead, and we’re excited to be a
part of it.” said John Deknatel, President, C. Raymond Hunt
Associates...[read
more]
Date posted: 08/24/2006
Subaru Shoots Commercial in New
Bedford
Film
scouts for Subaru International recently contacted the City of
New Bedford to request use of our picturesque cobblestone stones
in the National Park District. Film location professionals in
Boston working on behalf of Subaru's production agency, Marcom
Visual Creation of NYC, gave New Bedford very high marks as a
film-friendly community which has hosted many film projects,
including WGBH (American Experience Series), TV Japan, Spanish
Public Television, and the $8 million independent film,
Passionada, starring Jason Isaacs...[read
more]
Date posted: 08/24/2006
36 Hours in New Bedford, Mass.
A
LOT of time and tide has come and gone since the days when New
Bedford was, as Melville wrote in "Moby-Dick," “the dearest
place to live in, in all New England”… New Bedford has plenty of
history, architecture and small museums to fill a weekend,
particularly when you throw in its proximity to some of the
prettiest little towns on the coast and a couple of
Massachusetts's best and least famous beaches...[read
more]
Date posted: 08/24/2006
Business Park Grows Into the 21st Century
New
Bedford Property Has Seen Considerable Changes Since Industrial
Foundation’s Campaign Began in 1998.
Despite approaching its 50th anniversary, the New Bedford
Business Park displays more elements of the new millennium these
days than of the old. “We don’t have any belching smokestacks,”
Executive Director Thomas G. Davis noted last week of the
1300-acre complex. “It has a very modern look and feel.”...[read
more]
Date posted: 08/24/2006
AquaPoint provides cost-effective
wastewater solutions
Tucked
amid much bigger buildings and businesses that dot the New
Bedford Business Park, Aquapoint could very well be a giant in
the future of wastewater treatment for residential, commercial,
institutional and municipal markets...[read
more] |
