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Below is a collection of news articles from various media
sources.
Date posted: 6/17/2009
First of 16 cruise ships visits New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD — Like a returning snow bird, the white cruise
ship American Star homed in on State Pier for an overnight stay
Monday, offering its 90 passengers an opportunity to explore the
city's attractions. It was the [read
more]
Date posted: 6/17/2009
Waterfront mixed-use development project moves forward
NEW BEDFORD — After months of debate, demolition of
Fairhaven Mills is under way and city officials say it could be
completed in a month. In the past few days, workers have
been removing windows that contain [read
more]
Date posted: 6/17/2009
Visitors from former Soviet states visit Whaling City
NEW BEDFORD — It was probably a first. A 31-year-old woman
at the Day of Portugal celebration on Acushnet Avenue in New
Bedford on Sunday, asked for ID at the beer tent, produces a
Kazakhstan passport. [read
more]
Date posted: 6/17/2009
Community embraces Bay Sox
On May 31, 1997, the Torrington Twisters played their
first-ever game before a crowd of 3,320 at Fussenich Park, a
former minor-league park on a site that has today hosted
baseball for a century. Twelve years (and a roughly [read
more]
Date posted: 6/17/2009
New Bedford community theatre thrives after 62 years
It's like this hidden-in-plain-sight treasure that local
theater lovers know about but the rest of Greater New Bedford is
mostly oblivious to. Your Theatre. Name me another
New England city or town that has had a [read
more]
Date posted: 6/17/2009
Leadership program seeks participants
Leadership SouthCoast is seeking employers to sponsor their
employees as Class of 2010 participants. The program year
commences in September 2009. Scholarship support is also being
solicited for aspiring leaders whose [read
more]
Date posted: 5/26/2009
New Bedford Bay Sox kick off 2009 season June 4th
The New Bedford Bay Sox will kick off their inaugural season
at Paul Walsh Field on Thursday, June 4th at 6:30 p.m. The team
will take on the Holyoke Blue Sox, in their first of 45 games
this summer. Opening Day will provide [read
more]
Date posted: 5/26/2009
Offshore wind farms closer to becoming a reality
WASHINGTON — Change is blowing in the wind and hundreds of
thousands of people living on the coast of Massachusetts soon
transform the way they power their homes and businesses.
Offshore wind farms are no longer [read
more]
Date posted: 5/26/2009
New Bedford receives $1M for road improvements
NEW BEDFORD — The state has awarded more than $1 million to
the city for street improvements near the former Wamsutta Mill,
with the goal of encouraging more private investment in the
neighborhood. [read
more]
Date posted: 5/26/2009
New Bedford renewable company featured on CNN
NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts (CNN) -- When you think scooter,
you might think of something a child would ride. The
Vectrix VX-1 maxi scooter, which weighs much more than a typical
bike at 515 pounds, is anything but [read
more]
Date posted: 5/26/2009
NASA selects city environmental company to provide wastewater
treatment system
Aquapoint, a New Bedford environmental company, was selected to
provide the wastewater treatment system for NASA’s LEED
certified Infinity Science Center in Southern Mississippi.
LEED, is the U.S. Building Council’s standard [read
more]
Date posted: 5/26/2009
New Bedford’s Ocean Explorium Wins Best Kids Activity Award
Cape Cod Life magazine recently awarded the Ocean Explorium
at New Bedford Seaport a South Coast Gold Award for Best Kids'
The award underscores the success of the Ocean Explorium whose
mission is to establish [read
more]
Date posted: 5/26/2009
City awarded EPA grant for brownsfields study
The city of New Bedford is one of nine applicants in the state
to receive Recovery Act funding dedicated to the cleanup and
redevelopment of contaminated industrial and commercial sites,
known as brownfields. [read
more]
Date posted: 5/26/2009
Ale house opens in New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — A new pub-style establishment recently
opened in the downtown business district of New Bedford. The
Rose Alley Ale House, at 94 Front St., joins the ever growing
list of businesses that have expanded [read
more]
Date posted: 5/5/2009
Stimulus funds to hasten cleanup in New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD - Millions of dollars in federal stimulus money
will be invested in a massive cleanup of polluted New Bedford
Harbor, home of one of New England's oldest and largest
Superfund sites, federal officials [read
more]
Date posted: 5/5/2009
New Bedford downtown is quietly growing
Even the news that the state will hold off advertising the
rerouting of Route 18 until at least 2010, effectively
postponing a plan to make New Bedford's downtown area more
pedestrian friendly, can't divert city officials' beliefs [read
more]
Date posted: 5/5/2009
Restoring Ernestina Video
NEW BEDFORD — It has been 11 months since Ernestina
sailed on home waters, but the historic schooner is returning to
the city next Saturday, having undergone extensive restoration
on the forward part of its 115-year-old [read
more]
Date posted: 5/5/2009
'Chronicle' to explore the 'new' New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD — Could this city be shedding its image as an
"undiscovered" gem? It is getting help from "Chronicle," the New
England magazine program produced by WCVB-TV5 in Boston. [read
more]
Date posted: 5/5/2009
Mariners impressed by city and harbor beauty, amenities
NEW BEDFORD — There were swells in the harbor Thursday, all
of them aboard the New Bedford Fast Ferry for a slow-speed
survey of the waterfront and all that it offers the flotillas of
the yacht clubs of the Northeast. [read
more]
Date posted: 5/5/2009
Film industry thriving in New Bedford
New Bedford is gaining a reputation as a film friendly city
with multiple locations suitable for almost any type of film
imaginable. In the past two years, the city has been the
location for a segment of the [read
more]
Date posted: 4/16/2009
City launches master plan
NEW BEDFORD — The city will complete a master plan
for development that brings together the pieces of
earlier efforts and creates "a road map" for the future,
Mayor Scott W. Lang announced Friday. [read
more]
Date posted: 4/16/2009
Developers offer beams from mill building for Ernestina
NEW BEDFORD — The developers of Riverside Landing plan to
donate 24-foot-long beams of southern yellow pine to the
preservation of New Bedford's historic schooner Ernestina, city
officials announced Tuesday. [read
more]
Date posted: 4/16/2009
New Bedford Antiques finds new home at Wamsutta Place
A building in the Lofts at Wamsutta Place mill complex will
soon be the new home of New Bedford Antiques; an antiques
cooperative presently located in the Fairhaven Mills building on
Coggeshall Street. [read
more]
Date posted: 4/16/2009
New Bedford progress highlighted in state-wide press
The Sunday Herald is taking a look at how communities across
the state are poised for a post-recession recovery. NEW
BEDFORD - In the 19th century, when whales were oil wells on the
high seas, New Bedford was [read
more]
Date posted: 4/16/2009
Environmental secretary narrows rail options to three
State environmental officials further narrowed the possible
routes for bringing commuter rail to New Bedford, whittling down
the list from five options to three. Secretary of Energy and
Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles [read
more]
Date posted: 4/16/2009
Business Assistance for Nonprofits
A low-cost workshop series designed to assist nonprofit
community organizations in capacity building and professional
development will be launched April 16 as part of a series called
Nonprofit Breakfast Briefs. [read
more]
Date posted: 4/16/2009
New Bedford antiques company featured again
New England Demolition and Salvage, one of New Bedford’s
well-visited source of antiques and hard-to-find house
restoration items was featured again – this time on a broadband
video channel. [read
more]
Date posted: 3/20/2009
Mayor Lang outlines New Bedford's challenges
NEW BEDFORD — In a wide-ranging State of the City address,
Mayor Scott W. Lang acknowledged the economic woes facing the
city but also looked to the future, highlighting a proposal for
a revamped city employment model [read
more]
Date posted: 3/20/2009
New Bedford redevelopment “Success Story”
Channel 10 News visited New Bedford’s new Riverside
Landing site to discuss a New Bedford “Success Story.”
NEW BEDFORD — If all pieces fall in place on an
optimistic schedule of developers and public officials, by
summer [read
more]
Date posted: 3/20/2009
Freestones celebrates 30 years as a downtown destination
Freestones Restaurant and Bar is celebrating 30 years of
business in downtown New Bedford’s historic district during the
month of March. The celebration includes special pricing of
items that were favorites in 1979 [read
more]
Date posted: 3/20/2009
New Bedford gets a chance to show off for world's seafood buyers
NEW BEDFORD — This city ships everything from sea scallops
to skate fillets around the world, and Tuesday the world — or at
least its seafood buyer representatives — came to bear witness
to the origins of their imports [read
more]
Date posted: 3/20/2009
'A new beginning' for New Bedford Half Marathon
NEW BEDFORD — The 32nd New Bedford Half Marathon on Sunday
marked a new beginning with the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
taking over the race, and provided financially hard-pressed
downtown restaurants, pubs and [read
more]
Date posted: 3/20/2009
National Park Service appoints new head of New Bedford Whaling
National Historical Park
NEW BEDFORD - National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Regional
Director Dennis Reidenbach has selected Jen Nersesian as the
superintendent of New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
in New Bedford, Massachusetts [read
more]
Date posted: 3/20/2009
'Top Chef' winner visits New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD — After a feature on the Bravo channel's "Top
Chef" earned Oceans Alive Scallops national acclaim, the company
decided it wanted to repay the favor. They invited Hosea
Rosenberg, who won the [read
more]
Date posted: 3/05/2009
Historical Commission gives go-ahead to tear down Fairhaven
Mills
NEW BEDFORD — The proposed demolition of the remaining
buildings comprising the Fairhaven Mills complex to make way for
a new retail and mixed-use development took a major step forward
Wednesday. [read
more]
Date posted: 3/05/2009
Airport runway project clears first environmental hurdle
NEW BEDFORD — State environmental officials have signed off
on a plan to extend runway and runway safety areas and make
other improvements at the New Bedford Regional Airport, meaning
the facility has cleared its [read
more]
Date posted: 3/05/2009
International online running website features the New Bedford
Half Marathon – as a “grand New England racing tradition in a
historic seaport city
Get ready to lace up on March 15, 2009 for the 32nd annual
New Bedford Half Marathon, one of New England’s Premier Half
Marathons, and see why it continues to be a memorable racing
tradition. Rated in the top twenty-five half [read
more]
Date posted: 3/05/2009
Downtown New Bedford opens up to half-marathon crowd
NEW BEDFORD — Maybe you hate to "eat and run." But how about
"run and eat"? Indeed, Downtown New Bedford Inc. is hoping
to whet the appetites of both runners and spectators at the
March 15 half marathon [read
more]
Date posted: 3/05/2009
Buzzards Bay group buys building in downtown New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD — Seeking to get closer to the object of its
efforts and to raise its profile, the Coalition for Buzzards Bay
has purchased a building in the city's historic district that is
a long stone's throw from New Bedford Harbor. [read
more]
Date posted: 3/05/2009
Fishing movie to be shot in New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD — The city's fishing industry will be in the
spotlight this summer when an independent film company comes to
shoot a feature film with the working title, "Whaling City."
With a script written by Jay Burke [read
more]
Date posted: 2/24/2009
BUILDING THE DREAM
NEW BEDFORD — In late January, city officials and the owner
of the Fairhaven Mills waterfront industrial site met in Boston
with top architects and planners who have worked on
state-of-the-art, energy efficient development [read
more]
Date posted: 2/24/2009
High-end manufacturer Symmetry Medical Inc. thrives in
low-end economy
Low-skill manufacturing may be on life support in New
Bedford, but high-skill manufacturing seems to be pumping more
iron every day. One of the big success stories in 2008 was at
the New Bedford Business Park. [read
more]
Date posted: 2/24/2009
City wins major cultural grants
NEW BEDFORD — The Massachusetts Cultural Council on Friday
announced two grants totaling $95,000 for New Bedford to
continue building its "creative economy," with one for $60,000
to the New Bedford Economic [read
more]
Date posted: 2/24/2009
New Bedford energy company looks to harness canal's current
A New Bedford-based company is seeking a license to harness
the fast-moving currents of the Cape Cod Canal to generate
electrical currents. In November 2007, Natural Currents
New England was issued a preliminary permit [read
more]
Date posted: 2/24/2009
City solar company secures $5 million loan for manufacturing and
job creation
Lowell, Mass. – Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in
development and commercialization of Konarka Power Plastic®, a
material that converts light to energy, today announced the
company has received $5 million in [read
more]
Date posted: 2/24/2009
WinnCompanies completes solar installations at historic New
Bedford mill
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — WinnCompanies has completed solar power
installation at New Bedford's Whaler's Place, an affordable
senior apartment community located at 90 Riverside Ave.
The 168 kW solar photovoltaic [read
more]
Date posted: 2/24/2009
Ahab would love New Bedford’s Whaling Museum
If you’ve ever wondered what life aboard a whaling ship was
really like, you might read Herman Melville’s classic Moby-Dick,
or Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea, which
described the sinking that inspired Melville’s classic. [read
more]
Date posted: 2/24/2009
Darn It! featured in Boston media again
A New Bedford company located in the city’s north end upper
harbor business district is featured again by the Boston media.
Darn It! recently found a spot on Channel 5’s popular program
Chronicle. [read
more]
Date posted: 2/06/2009
City projects marketed at state-wide developers’ event
NEW BEDFORD — City officials seeking to encourage developers
to take a more detailed look at New Bedford's "shovel-ready
development opportunities" held a show-and-tell Wednesday in
Boston at a marketing event [read
more]
Date posted: 2/06/2009
Recycler to move to New Bedford, bringing up to 100 jobs
NEW BEDFORD — A company that recycles plastic bottles and
aluminum cans has decided to relocate its New England operations
from Taunton to New Bedford, bringing 11 current jobs with plans
to add about 40 more in [read
more]
Date posted: 2/06/2009
New Bedford Ballet school springs back to its feet
NEW BEDFORD — The New Bedford Ballet — where hundreds and
hundreds of children and dozens of adults have practiced the art
of dance — was homeless and near death last summer, but today
will soar with a ribbon-cutting [read
more]
Date posted: 2/06/2009
Data shows Creative Economy benefits city businesses
NEW BEDFORD — As AHA! closes in on its 10th anniversary and
116th AHA! night event, the organization has released a UMass
Dartmouth evaluation of its impact, indicating that directly and
indirectly it pumps more than [read
more]
Date posted: 2/06/2009
Urban winery opens in downtown New Bedford
Conjure up a mental image of a winery. You probably
envision ranks of well-kept vines marching up a sun-bathed
hillside and a group of buildings including a European-style
tasting room. Think again. [read
more]
Date posted: 2/06/2009
Marketing workshops offered to area small businesses
Business owners serious about growing their business,
earning more revenue and making more profit can benefit from a
program sponsored by the Massachusetts Small Business
Development Center (MSBDC) [read
more]
Date posted: 2/06/2009
Applicants sought for city youth summer jobs
NEW BEDFORD — Much earlier than in past years and due to
increased demand, New Directions Southcoast Inc. will begin
accepting applications for summer job programs starting Friday
Feb. 6 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. [read
more]
Date posted: 1/14/2009
Major hurdle cleared in Fairhaven Mills site development
NEW BEDFORD — Three parties with a lot to gain or lose over
the Fairhaven Mills development project have won, with an
agreement this week by businessman John Meldon to sell his land
to Dickinson Development Corp. [read
more]
Date posted: 1/14/2009
City closes sale of three Fairhaven Mills sites
NEW BEDFORD — The city has closed the sale of three
properties for $500,000 at the Fairhaven Mills site, and it and
the developer anticipate that substantial progress will be made
during the coming year. [read
more]
Date posted: 1/14/2009
City renewable firm lands $20M investment
NEW BEDFORD — A company developing new technology to turn
waste into gas at its New Bedford research and development
facility has announced a major new investment intended to carry
the company from the [read
more]
Date posted: 1/14/2009
International yacht company celebrates 150 years of
manufacturing in America based in New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD — If you've been in business since the Lincoln
administration, you must be doing something right. The
Edson Corp., a marine accessories manufacturer in the North End,
can make that claim. [read
more]
Date posted: 12/19/2008
The buzz continues to grow about New Bedford: unlikely national
and state media coverage
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Convinced that this storied seaport of
cobblestone streets has ended years of economic devastation and
crime, a local developer plans to build a Marriott hotel on New
Bedford’s waterfront [read
more]
Date posted: 12/19/2008
City wins NECBL franchise: the NEW BEDFORD BAY SOX
NEW BEDFORD — If summer league baseball is the stuff dreams
are made of, then in this city dreams really do come true.
On Wednesday, the New Bedford Bay Sox of the New England
Collegiate Baseball League formally [read
more]
Date posted: 12/19/2008
Support grows for baseball team
Baseball lovers, get your peanuts and Cracker Jack ready for
the Bay Sox, the collegiate summer league team Mayor Scott W.
Lang plans to announce today. If New Bedford is going to host a
team, it can only do so with the [read
more]
Date posted: 12/19/2008
Two businesses thrive downtown
The most successful entrepreneurs in downtown New Bedford
over the last decade are two 30-something guys who come to work
wearing T-shirts. Jeff Goggin and Craig Paiva, the
respective owners of the Green Bean coffee [read
more]
Date posted: 12/19/2008
City advocates for additional tools for Gateway Cities
NEW BEDFORD — State legislators focused on revitalizing
Massachusetts' "Gateway Cities" outside the Boston/Route 128
beltway got an earful Wednesday from New Bedford's mayor and
staff about the need for special [read
more]
Date posted: 12/19/2008
WGBH Greater Boston features New Bedford company DARN IT!
A reinvented New Bedford company that once manufactured
clothing now solves control and logistical problems caused by
offshore manufacturing. Darn It! provides services that include
everything from garment [read
more]
Date posted: 12/19/2008
Hurricane barrier to be “boardwalked”
The state has awarded the city $1 million to provide people
with new opportunities to enjoy views of the water. The
money will help pay for a new park off the Acushnet River and a
new walking path atop the city’s hurricane barrier [read
more]
Date posted: 12/19/2008
Film industry focuses on New Bedford
Massachusetts is cultivating a taste for the film industry,
and Southeastern Massachusetts cities and towns, including New
Bedford, are stoking the kitchen fire to get their portion of
the meal. The state's identity as the home [read
more]
Date posted: 11/24/2008
New owner picked for Regency conversion
NEW BEDFORD — A new owner of the Regency Tower was chosen
Wednesday with a pledge to overhaul the 15-story landmark and
convert it from apartments into condominiums that will support
downtown revitalization [read
more]
Date posted: 11/24/2008
City applauds comeback cafe
NEW BEDFORD — The city Wednesday officially welcomed back
one of its premier eateries — the M&C Cafe at 436 Belleville
Ave. — almost a year after a serious fire shuttered the popular
Portuguese family restaurant and [read
more]
Date posted: 11/24/2008
City Active in North-End, South-End and Downtown Business
Development Planning
Mayor Scott W. Lang today highlighted the progress his
administration has made on several strategic planning efforts
designed to unlock new business development opportunities in
three of the city’s commercial areas [read
more]
Date posted: 11/24/2008
The LOOP - UMass students experience downtown New BedfordA
growing number of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth students
are visiting New Bedford's downtown shops, restaurants, museums
and [read
more]
Date posted: 11/24/2008
Holiday Stroll marks new era for Downtown New Bedford
Santa and Mrs. Claus will greet their young admirers.
Musicians will perform. The aroma of holiday treats will fill
the air. The city’s giant tree will sparkle on the library
steps. All this and more is planned for visitors to New Bedford
[read
more]
Date posted: 11/24/2008
NBEDC moves forward with Creative Economy Task Force
recommendations
The New Bedford Economic Development Council is pleased to
announce that Meg Albert has joined the organization as a
consultant for the next three months to begin implementing the
recommendations of the Creative [read
more]
Date posted: 11/24/2008
City tackles first master plan in 44 years
NEW BEDFORD — In 1964, the city created the forward-looking
"Master Plan for 1980." But since 1980, the city has taken at
least a half-dozen incomplete or unsuccessful stabs at a new
comprehensive master plan. [read
more]
Date posted: 10/22/2008
Bioneers by the Bay conference kicks off Thursday, October 23
at New Bedford’s Zeiterion Performing Arts Center
The
4th annual Bioneers by the Bay: Connecting for Change
conference kicks off on Thursday, October, 23 at the
Zeiterion Performing Arts Center with speakers Majora
Carter, Van Jones, and Simran Sethi. The event is free
and
[read
more]
Date posted: 10/22/2008
Workforce development strategies focus of October 23rd summit
The Massachusetts Regional Workforce Strategies Initiative
will hold a Southeastern Massachusetts Workforce Development
Summit on Thursday October 23, 2008 at Massasoit Community
College Conference Center, 770 Crescent
[read
more]
Date posted: 10/22/2008
SMILES mentoring program – making a difference in SouthCoast
workforce development
The
following is a three-part series on the SMILES mentoring
program which appeared in the New Bedford
Standard-Times. The author, Jim Mathes, is the executive
director of the organization and Vice President of the [read
more]
Date posted: 10/22/2008
Businesses benefit from District Attorney’s seminar on internal
financial controls, employee fraud and more
The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office, in
conjunction with several area banks and Chambers of Commerce,
will host the second annual Small Business Seminar for small and
medium-sized businesses at White’s of Westport [read
more]
Date posted: 10/22/2008
After two weeks on the job, new president of Whaling Museum has
only positive impressions
An Attleboro resident, Mr. Russell, 43, is former vice
president of the International Yacht Restoration School and
Museum of Yachting in Newport, R.I. Here is the transcript
of the interview conducted in his office at the museum.
[read
more]
Date posted: 10/22/2008
Downtown New Bedford Inc. names new executive director
The Board of Directors has announced the appointment of
Diane Nichols as Executive Director of Downtown New Bedford,
Inc., the voice of the downtown business community, its
residents and property owners. Ms. Nichols will
[read
more]
Date
posted: 10/08/2008
Mill development project moves ahead
NEW BEDFORD — A years-long, contentious battle over the
future of the Cliftex Mill 1 building on the upper Acushnet
River has entered a new phase with new owners and a $30 million
plan to turn the historic structure
[read
more]
Date
posted: 10/08/2008
City welcomes leading edge renewable energy company to Business
Park
NEW BEDFORD — A company that manufactures a thin-film solar
material cut ribbon Tuesday to mark its move into the former
Polaroid building in the New Bedford Business Park as state and
local officials touted the
[read
more]
Date
posted: 10/08/2008
South Coast Rail unveils rail station plans
NEW BEDFORD — The South Coast Rail project announced 18
proposed rail stations for commuter service between this city,
Fall River and Boston on Monday, including three in New Bedford.
The local rail stations would be
[read
more]
Date
posted: 10/08/2008
Working Waterfront Festival fares foul weather well
NEW BEDFORD — When the Northern Neck Sea Chantey Singers
from Northumberland County, Va., closed the city's Working
Waterfront Festival on Sunday with a fervent rendition of the
old spiritual "Heaven Look Down on Me,"
[read
more]
Date
posted: 10/08/2008
New Bedford based business, A Teaching Tree, markets creative
teaching materials on web
NEW BEDFORD, MA, Sep 30, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) --
Not many people realize that today's teachers are mandated to
dress their classroom bulletin boards with something that does
more that show off their
[read
more]
Date
posted: 9/26/2008
Working Waterfront Festival this weekend!
No need to tune into television for seafaring dramas like
"Lobster Wars" and "Deadliest Catch" to get a peek inside life
chasing catch on the water. This weekend, New Bedford's fifth
annual Working Waterfront Festival shows
[read
more]
Date
posted: 9/26/2008
New Bedford attracts its largest downtown convention
….x5!
The 4th annual Bioneers by the Bay: Connecting for
Change, a national environmental and social justice
conference, will take place this year for the first time
in historic downtown New Bedford, from Oct. 23 to 26.
[read
more]
Date
posted: 9/26/2008
NBEDC has money to lend
NEW BEDFORD — It isn't only individuals who are living
week-to-week these days. Small businesses — healthy ones,
established ones — are having cash flow trouble and could topple
like dominoes unless someone
[read
more]
Date
posted: 9/26/2008
WindCheck Magazine hightlights New Bedford and other
SouthCoast seaside communities as sailing destinations
Buzzards Bay can lay claim to being one of the most
consistently windy bodies of water on the East Coast. A
fortuitous southwest-to-northeast orientation and a
funnel shape create a venturi effect that accelerates
[read
more]
Date
posted: 9/26/2008
Some Thoughts on New Bedford from a visiting sailor
How can I say enough about New Bedford? If it weren’t
for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, I’d vote for New
Bef ’d to be the capital city of Massachusetts. After
all, their fish chowder is as good, or better, than
[read
more]
Date
posted: 9/26/2008
Happy to be stranded in New Bedford
THE MOTORSAILER Queen Charlotte was forced into New Bedford,
Mass., by engine problems, but truly, the crew could hardly be
sorry. New Bedford is a splendidly salty town — the headquarters
of the New England whaling fleet
[read
more]
Date
posted: 9/26/2008
Whaling Museum names new president
NEW BEDFORD — The 43-year-old former vice president of the
International Yacht Restoration School and Museum of Yachting in
Newport, R.I., has been voted the new president of the New
Bedford Whaling Museum
[read
more]
Date posted: 9/26/2008
"Green Up" Your Business
Going green isn't just better for our planet—it's
better for your business.
Study after study confirms that consumers are
eco-conscious about where they shop and how products are
made. All the big companies are into
[read
more]
Date
posted: 9/26/2008
Sisters open JuiceBox downtown
NEW BEDFORD — Officials cut the ribbon on another
"hip," lifestyle-oriented business in the downtown
business district Monday, marking the opening of The
JuiceBox at 285 Union St. operated by sisters Natasha
and
[read
more]
Date
posted: 9/26/2008
Metal band films video at Orpheum
NEW BEDFORD — The Orpheum Theater stage saw a lot of acts
during its heyday from 1912 to 1958, when it closed its doors,
but none like the band that took the stage on Sunday. The
theater’s ambience went from
[read
more]
Date
posted: 9/26/2008
Community contributes talent, energy to public art
project
NEW BEDFORD — From Clark's Point to Butler's Flat to
other landmarks along the Acushnet River, New Bedford's
landscape started coming to life in a 105-foot panoramic
mural over the weekend. Area artists and
volunteers began
[read
more]
Date
posted: 9/26/2008
OUR VIEW: ArtWorks saw city's creative future
Fifteen years ago, few in New Bedford would have
looked at the empty store fronts and boarded-up windows
and seen a bright future for the city. But some
did. In the empty mills they envisioned a place for studio and
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/09/2008
New Bedford’s creative economy a critical factor in
city’s renaissance
New Bedford, MA – In 1993 the founders of ArtWorks!
envisioned that the arts and artists would become a critical
factor in New Bedford’s renaissance. As the 21st century
unfolds, arts-related businesses, institutions and
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/09/2008
New Bedford, America’s largest commercial fishing
port, hosts the 5th Working Waterfront Festival, a
celebration of commercial fishing culture
Rounding out a busy season of city festivals, the Working
Waterfront Festival brings together in a very literal sense both
the creative and the economic aspects of the city’s “Creative
Economy”. The festival represents the
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/09/2008
City orchestra nurtures new talent; promises to
delight audience opening night
Solo instruments and small ensembles undeniably make
beautiful music, but without an orchestra, musicians
cannot achieve what 12-year-old Fairhaven violinist
Kimberlee Joseph describes as the "big sounds."
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/09/2008
A “Salute to Veterans” art exhibit to feature the
original art of Veterans
Starting on AHA! Night, Thursday, September 11th,
2008 the Veterans Transition House will present a
“Salute to the Veterans” Art Exhibit at the Gallery X,
169 William St., New Bedford, MA. The Exhibit will
display
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/09/2008
Zeiterion's new season brims with diverse
entertainment
It was a very big deal for New Bedford in October
2005 when Lily Tomlin took the stage at the Zeiterion to
open the performance season, the venerable theater's first under
the guiding hand of the newly appointed
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/09/2008
City-wide artist event celebrates 4th year
Over 100 artists will exhibit in 15 historic buildings
including mills, a former church, and other vintage buildings
throughout New Bedford. The artists will open their studios for
the fourth year in this growing event
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/09/2008
Creative restoration: the Cummings Building, downtown
New Bedford readies for living-loft spaces
When Dubliner Phillip Dwane set foot in New Bedford four
years ago, he could've sworn he was in his native Erin.
"New Bedford reminds me of old Dublin— especially along the
docks—before Dublin was developed.
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/09/2008
Partnership melds creativity and science in downtown
New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD — In an effort to increase interest in math and
science education in the Greater New Bedford area and strengthen
ties to the role of the ocean in the region, the University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/09/2008
Orpheum alive with vaudeville
NEW BEDFORD — For a few hours Saturday, the
deteriorating Orpheum Theatre regained some of the charm
and energy with which it opened in 1912. Men in top hats
and women in flowing dresses hurried through the
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/09/2008
Practical business tactics for the local economy
Company leaders feeling ill effects from this troubled
economy, who may want to immediately improve business
performance, are invited to join an interactive panel and
workshop on September 18, 2008 which brings
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/02/2008
City's economic progress draws praise
NEW
BEDFORD — The city got a solid pat on the back Thursday
for its economic development efforts from the man who
heads the state's public investment bank, along with
advice to keep the momentum going.
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/02/2008
Curtain raises on crown jewel of city mills
NEW
BEDFORD — The largest, most visible, oldest and most
architecturally significant mill restoration in this
city of more than 100 mill buildings still standing is
almost ready to shine.
The Lofts at Wamsutta Place will open
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/02/2008
Busting at the seams, New Bedford apparel firm snags another
city location
NEW BEDFORD — A city company that solves other businesses'
problems with messed-up apparel orders, distribution
difficulties and warehousing needs has outgrown its South End
quarters and is moving to
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/02/2008
Sled your inhibitions and try luge
NEW
BEDFORD — Wanted: youngsters willing to lie on their
backs on thin fiberglass sleds and whiz down ice
channels at speeds of more than 90 mph — with no brakes.
If this sounds like a good time to you
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/02/2008
New Bedford alternative energy company continues to grow
NEW
BEDFORD - Take a rusting, hulking pile of scrap metal,
add a few tons of construction debris, and what do you
get?
In the case of Ze-gen Inc., a new source of energy.
Ze-gen, founded four years ago, is using the
[read
more]
Date posted:
9/02/2008
Ahead is new merchandise partner for annual Patriot Golf Day
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- Ahead announced that it has become a
Merchandise Partner for the second annual Patriot Golf Day to be
held at participating golf courses around the country August 29
– September 1, 2008.
[read
more]
Date posted:
8/12/2008
New Bedford Police 'go green'
NEW BEDFORD — They are so quiet, a police officer
riding one can almost sneak up on someone. A
steady, quiet hum was the only sound heard Monday as police Sgt.
Jill Simmons and Officer Christian Gomes rode the Police [read
more]
Date posted:
8/12/2008
New access plan for Fairhaven Mills
NEW BEDFORD — The city and the developer for the Fairhaven
Mills site say the project is moving forward with a new access
plan, and Mayor Scott W. Lang said the city has asked the state
to free up $1.3 million for improvements [read
more]
Date posted:
8/12/2008
New Bedford tallies up its industrial mills; some to
reuse and others to demolish
NEW BEDFORD — Officials here say an inventory of the city's
101 mill structures is the most comprehensive document of its
kind in the state, claiming it can be a powerful tool for
economic development and historic preservation [read
more]
Date posted:
8/12/2008
Public access key component of New Bedford's upper
harbor plan
NEW BEDFORD — A draft plan for upper New Bedford
Harbor revitalization proposes three new, east-west,
public-access ways to the Acushnet River and a
north-south walkway starting above Coggeshall Street and
continuing for [read
more]
Date posted:
8/12/2008
Salvage firm enjoying brisk business in new location
NEW BEDFORD — When buying and fixing up a new place,
homeowners can spend thousands of dollars on building materials
such as doors, windows, and hardware. But instead of buying new,
buyers might want to take [read
more]
Date posted:
8/12/2008
Governor's road show comes bearing gifts
NEW BEDFORD — Gov. Deval Patrick, in the midst of a summer
blitz of town hall and Cabinet meetings across the state,
visited the city Tuesday, and senior administration officials
announced a $500,000 grant for Bristol [read
more]
Date posted:
8/12/2008
2008 Working Waterfront Festival slated for September
New Bedford, MA – The 2008 Working Waterfront Festival will
take place in New Bedford, Massachusetts, America’s largest
commercial fishing port, on Saturday and Sunday, September 27th
& 28th. This free, family-friendly [read
more]
Date posted:
8/12/2008
New Bedford efforts to lure airlines facing
roadblocks on way to takeoff
NEW BEDFORD - Mayor Scott W. Lang is trying something
that might not fly: He's lobbying small, regional
airlines to launch service from here to Boston's Logan
International or Warwick's T.F. Green International
airports. [read
more]
Date posted:
8/12/2008
Those underestimated fishing boats
So 28 years ago this summer, a guy named Biff MacLean
threw a big party on the New Bedford waterfront for a
guy named Ted Kennedy who was running for president at
the time. As 85-year-old local politico Sylvester
Sylvia [read
more]
Date posted: 7/28/2008
Important seafood addition to downtown waterfront opens
NEW BEDFORD — The Waterfront Grille on the site of the
former Louie's on the Wharf and Twin Piers officially opens for
business on Friday at 4:30 p.m. with off-the-boat seafood served
ready to eat — something missing from
[read more]
Date posted: 7/28/2008
Respected men’s and women’s clothiers want to be where it’s
“happening” and choose New Bedford!
NEW BEDFORD — A pair of parallel men's and women's clothing
shops that have been SouthCoast fixtures in Dartmouth for a
decade plan to pull up roots this summer and, in the words of
one of the owners, head for a
[read more]
Date posted: 7/28/2008
Economic Development Council advocates for project
Paper endorses progress on Victoria Riverside
NEW BEDFORD — In an extraordinary move, a group of the
area's most prominent business leaders who head the New Bedford
Economic Development Council have attacked the Zoning Board of
Appeals and its chairman
[read more]
Date posted: 7/28/2008
Still number 1 fishing port in country
NEW
BEDFORD — The value of the Port of New Bedford's seafood
catch dipped a bit in 2007, but it was still strong
enough to make it the nation's most valuable port for
the eighth consecutive year. In 2007, fishermen
landed
[read more]
Date posted: 7/28/2008
City continues to interest and impress sailors
NEW
BEDFORD — The city has hosted its first sailing
rendezvous of the 2008 season and judging from the
comments of some of the participants it was an
overwhelming success. The Cape Dory Sailboat
Owners Association
[read
more]
Date posted: 7/28/2008
New Bedford clean tech firm positions itself for growth
A
New England company that makes electric scooters is
getting a boost from the high price of gasoline. Vectrix
Corp., which is based in Middletown, R.I., and has an
engineering plant in New Bedford, said its dealership total
[read more]
Date posted: 7/28/2008
Local business outfits the stars
NEW
BEDFORD - You may not notice Hilary Duff's Girl Scout
vest, complete with merit badges, in the upcoming film
"Greta." Ditto for Sir Ben Kingsley's vintage '50s duds
in "Ashecliffe" the thriller based on Dorchester
native
[read more]
Date posted: 7/28/2008
New Bedford means business
NEW
BEDFORD, Mass. Officials here are making a hard sell,
trying to convince developers and investors that the
city is a choice location in which to start or to
relocate a business. They point out that the old whaling
city has a
[read more]
Date posted: 7/28/2008
Keeping the tools of redevelopment in cities
It
is sometimes said that a city is a constant negotiation,
but House Bill 1770, introduced by Rep. Marty Walz of
Boston, will stop much of that negotiation dead in its tracks.
Over the past three years, similar legislation has been
[read more]
Date posted: 7/16/2008
Globe highlights Joseph Abboud innovations
Will a new class of globe-trotting Chinese businessmen
clamor for imported pin-striped suits made in America?
Joseph Abboud Manufacturing Co. thinks so. In a move that
turns the typical globalization story on its head
[read more]
Date posted: 7/16/2008
New England hears Mayor’s pitch for city
(NECN: New Bedford, Mass.) - Scott Lang, the mayor of New
Bedford, Massachusetts, joins NECN to talk about new
developments. The city is trying to convince developers that it
is a great place to start or relocate a business
[read more]
Date posted: 7/16/2008
Downtown revitalization continues to move ahead
NEW BEDFORD — The Cummings Building, which houses the
popular restaurant No Problemo on Purchase Street, has been sold
to a Martha's Vineyard-based developer that plans to spiff up
the exterior and convert the
[read more]
Date posted: 7/16/2008
Rhode Island magazine says New Bedford has turned
itself around
New Bedford is barely a heartbeat from Providence
and Newport, but it feels light years away. Maybe it’s the
parking, which is readily available. Or, perhaps, the shops
peddling antiques and salvaged architectural goods by
[read more]
Date posted: 7/16/2008
Winn Cos. lauded for New Bedford preservation
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Preservation Massachusetts, a statewide
non-profit historic preservation organization dedicated to
preserving the Commonwealth's historic and cultural heritage,
has recognized Winn Development
[read more]
Date posted: 7/16/2008
New Bedford waste-to-gas test a success, Ze-gen says
NEW BEDFORD – Preliminary data from its proof-of-concept
facility in New Bedford confirm the efficacy of Ze-gen Inc.’s
waste-to-energy model, the company says. “Our positive
test results are arriving at a time when fossil
[read more]
Date posted: 7/16/2008
State life science law holds opportunities for New Bedford
BOSTON — State leaders this week will tout Massachusetts' $1
billion, 10-year life sciences initiative at an international
biotechnology conference in San Diego. Gov. Patrick signed
the bill, more than a year in the
[read more]
Date posted: 7/16/2008
More family-friendly activity planned for downtown
If you look forward to AHA! Night every month, here's your
chance to go every week. City Celebrates! is a weekly
celebration of the arts in downtown New Bedford, with live
music, kids' activities, films, galleries
[read more]
Date posted: 7/16/2008
Another promising downtown business opens
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - The Downtown New Bedford business
district will expand again this week with the grand opening of “Vêtu,”
a gift and fine consignment shop located at the corner of Union
Street and Johnny
[read more]
Date posted: 7/08/2008
New
Bedford artist paints Fenway-inspired murals throughout New
England
Jack and Owen Boucher share a room, which might ordinarily
be a problem for 13- and 10-year-old brothers. But not here: One
long wall of their bedroom is painted to look like the Green
Monster, and for these young athletes
[read more]
Date posted: 7/08/2008
“This
Old House” features New Bedford on PBS
The seaside town where Herman Melville set Moby-Dick,
New Bedford, is also known for its historic architecture. Its
restored mansions are highly coveted, but the more modest
neighborhood of Kempton’s Corners and the
[read more]
Date posted: 7/08/2008
Creative
energy thrives downtown
On
Sunday afternoon, June 22, I greeted close to 100
visitors in ArtWorks! galleries. This was just a sample
of all those who came to downtown New Bedford to share in the
Taste Our SouthCoast food tasting or to watch
[read more]
Date posted: 7/08/2008
New
Bedford Ocean Explorium prepares to open
The Sea: we look to it for inspiration, sustenance and
adventure. Our community is defined by the sea. Throughout our
history we have taken both pleasure and profit from the waters
that meet our shores and from the
[read more]
Date posted: 7/08/2008
Heaping
helpings of local flavor at Taste Our SouthCoast
NEW BEDFORD — Downtown New Bedford was a food and art
lover's dream come true Sunday afternoon for the second annual
Taste Our SouthCoast, an outdoor festival featuring live music,
artists at work and cuisine
[read more]
Date posted: 7/08/2008
City’s
diverse ethnic heritage celebrated again
New
Bedford – Eighteen-month old Jamiel Tavares clutched a
balloon in one hand and looked out onto Union Street
with big eyes, anticipating the excitement as a parade
was approaching.
[read more]
Date posted: 7/08/2008
Summerfest
provides a treat for the senses
New
Bedford – After a modest start Friday night with two
bands and an open food court, Summerfest kicked into
high gear Saturday as musicians performed on six stages and
vendors and artisans came out in full force.
[read more]
Date posted: 7/08/2008
Destination:
SouthCoast
NEW
BEDFORD — Could it be true? Could the predictions be
right? Could $4 gasoline and the American dollar
declining into Monopoly money on the Fourth of July
weekend spell success for the region's tourism industry?
[read more]
Date posted: 7/08/2008
NBEDC
works to help ballet school relocate
For more than 20 years, the School of the New Bedford
Ballet and the New Bedford Ballet Foundation have served the
Greater New Bedford community by introducing children to the
magical world of ballet. Over 1,500 children
[read more]
Date posted: 7/01/2008
New Bedford seeks its third economic boom
NECN's Peter Howe has details.
Massachusetts developers are looking to revitalize New
Bedford. The community once served as a massive economic
center. New Bedford, Massachusetts overflows with
history
[read more]
Date posted: 7/01/2008
City
woos developers with tour, sales pitch
New Bedford – The city’s economic development cheerleaders
put their best faces on Thursday as developers and real estate
investors toured the harbor, downtown and New Bedford Business
Park in a highly
[read more]
Date posted: 7/01/2008
Economic
Development Conference
Out
of the Leviathan-like belly of New Bedford’s (NE) Fast
Ferry emerges an economic development collaborative.
Spearheaded by State Senator Mark Montigny, New Bedford
Mayor Scott Lang, Economic Development
[read more]
Date posted: 7/01/2008
The city is open for business
Everybody knows corruption in government is wrong, but
people can differ on how they define corruption and what impact
it has. Is taking a bag of cash bad? Sure. How about peddling
influence, doing favors or as
[read more]
Date posted: 7/01/2008
Plan
ahead to attract development
For businesses looking to locate or expand in
Massachusetts, getting the state and local permits needed to do
business has been a major challenge for many years. We need to
address this issue front and center
[read more]
Date posted: 7/01/2008
“New Bedford is open for business”
The investment opportunities highlighted in this
presentation represent a fraction of those available in New
Bedford. It is not intended to be comprehensive, but to give
developers an idea of what New Bedford
[read more]
Date posted: 6/13/2008
Cape Cod Baseball League returns to New Bedford
New Bedford, Massachusetts - Mayor Scott W. Lang’s office
has announced the City of New Bedford will welcome the return of
the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) this summer season as league
teams [read
more]
Date posted: 6/13/2008
Economic development partnership helps city workers reach jobs
on the Vineyard
Seasonal workers for Island hotel and restaurant businesses
could be arriving by ferry from New Bedford through an organized
program within the next few weeks. [read
more]
Date posted: 6/13/2008
Massachusetts looks forward as world leader in life science
research
BOSTON — The life sciences bill that Gov. Deval Patrick
could sign soon includes UMass Dartmouth as a possible site for
a scientific research center. The bill, designed to make
Massachusetts a world leader in life sciences [read
more]
Date posted: 6/13/2008
City waterfront economy to gain from possible state allocation
NEW BEDFORD — State funding to provide a $25 million
face-lift to transform the downtown waterfront around State Pier
into a tourist-friendly destination was proposed Wednesday by
Sen. Mark C. W. Montigny. [read
more]
Date posted: 6/13/2008
New Bedford fishing commerce to benefit from Governor’s program
BOSTON -- Governor Deval Patrick today announced the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has
approved the state’s plan to distribute $13.4 million in federal
disaster relief to the [read
more]
Date posted: 6/13/2008
New Bedford Symphony highlighted on National Public Radio
(Listen to this heartwarming story!)
The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra’s Music in the Morning school
program was featured on WGBH radio broadcast of NPR’s Morning
Edition and All things Considered. The story is heartwarming and
highlights the [read
more]
Date posted: 6/13/2008
New Bedford famous spot highlighted
If skyrocketing gas prices have you rethinking your summer
travel plans, why not explore a gem in your own back yard?
Take the New Bedford Whaling Museum, for example. [read
more]
Date posted: 6/13/2008
Keep America Beautiful speaker featured at Operation Clean Sweep
community meeting
A community meeting of Operation Clean Sweep on June 19 from
2-4 at the Corson Maritime Learning Center will feature remarks
by April Buther, Director of Affiliate Services for Keep America
Beautiful. [read
more]
Date posted: 6/12/2008
City
festival season steps off on Acushnet Avenue
NEW
BEDFORD — It's that time of year when Acushnet Avenue
turns into a street in Portugal for a weekend.
And not just any street. The "Ave" will host the 11th
edition of the Day of Portugal street festival, a weekend filled [read
more]
Date posted: 6/12/2008
Gov.
Patrick announces $1.3 million for I-195 ramp at Fairhaven Mills
NEW
BEDFORD — Gov. Deval Patrick announced Thursday the
award of $1.3 million to fix the traffic interchange at
Interstate 195 and Coggeshall Street across from the
Fairhaven Mills redevelopment project [read
more]
Date posted: 6/12/2008
American
Cruise Lines reports successful first port of call of the season
NEW
BEDFORD — The 215-foot cruise ship American Star glided
into port Monday night, sidled up to State Pier and
inaugurated the city's 2008 cruise ship season. It was
scheduled to sail from the harbor at 3 a.m. today. [read
more]
Date posted: 6/12/2008
National
sail publication singles out New Bedford as sailing destination
Once a key whaling port, and now the number-one fishing
port in value of catch in the United States, New Bedford,
Massachusetts, wants to add “cruising destination” to its
résumé. The Economic Development Council [read
more]
Date posted: 6/12/2008
Greater
New Bedford -- industry benchmark in the marine science
FALMOUTH — Continuing to strengthen the state's marine
science & technology sector in southeastern Massachusetts, the
John Adams Innovation Institute is making investments to support
research and commercialization [read
more]
Date posted: 6/12/2008
City
scallopers help manage stocks off Massachusetts coast
NEW
BEDFORD — Two city scallopers are taking video surveys
of the ocean floor this week to gather information about
the size and abundance of scallop stocks on fishing
grounds off the Massachusetts coast. [read
more]
Date posted: 6/12/2008
City
fisherman involved in fisheries scientific study
Fisheries
scientists have teamed up with local groundfishermen to
get a more accurate measure of the yellowtail flounder
swimming in the popular fishing grounds of Georges Bank. [read
more]
Date posted: 6/12/2008
Port
of New Bedford featured in PBS documentary
A screening of “New England Fishing Communities: The
Challenges and The Sacrifices,” produced by Rhode Island PBS
will be previewed Thursday, June 12th at the Seaman’s Bethel
located at 15 Johnny Cake Hill in [read
more]
Date posted: 6/12/2008
A
new look for New Bedford -- UMass Dartmouth’s Star Store arts
campus is at core of a growing creative economy and the
revitalization of downtown New Bedford
On a recent Thursday AHA! Night in downtown New Bedford, one
instantly feels the energy and vitality of a living, breathing
urban community. Galleries buzz with excitement, as new works
are unveiled to appreciative [read
more]
Date posted: 6/12/2008
Science
and Mother Nature join forces in New Bedford
NEW
BEDFORD — Gardeners in New Bedford are bringing the
brilliance of science and Mother Earth together by
planting vegetation that will naturally detoxify the
soil in a downtown patch of property. [read
more]
Date posted: 5/29/2008
2008 cruise season kicks off June 2nd
Downtown merchants and restaurateurs will welcome the first
of many American Cruise Line visitors June 3rd between the hours
of 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM. Vessels typically land later in the
evening around 8:00 PM and tour [read
more]
Date posted: 5/29/2008
New Bedford, other 'Gateway Cities' form economic alliance
BOSTON — Urban communities outside Boston that often feel
neglected by state government are banding together to fight for
common interests, such as job training and economic development.
[read
more]
Date posted: 5/29/2008
City’s compact is valuable step
At long last, Massachusetts' former mill cities are uniting
to advance their common interests. Eight months ago, we
endorsed a call by think tank Mass Inc. for the state's
"gateway" cities — so named for employing [read
more]
Date posted: 5/29/2008
Company relocates -- keeps jobs in New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD — A 30-employee company that manufactures
exhaust systems for motor vehicles marked its move to its new
30,000-square-foot home on Brook Street Thursday. [read
more]
Date posted: 5/29/2008
New Bedford waterfront safety improved through federal and state
grants
NEW BEDFORD — The administration of Mayor Scott W. Lang is
making a major push to improve public safety on the working
waterfront, installing equipment as simple as life rings and
ladders and as complex [read
more]
Date posted: 5/29/2008
Café Funchal is Greater New Bedford Small Business of the Year
NEW BEDFORD – Café Funchal, a family-owned business
established in 1999, has been honored by the New Bedford Area
Chamber of Commerce and BankFive with the 2008 Greater New
Bedford Small Business of the Year Award [read
more]
Date posted: 5/29/2008
Area companies focus on performance excellence
The New England Performance Excellence Initiative (NEPE
Initiative) is a new integrated system of internet collaboration
tools and knowledge resources, combined with live monthly
gatherings taking place across [read
more]
Date posted: 5/15/2008
Marriott grants Fairfield Inn and Suites franchise
for New Bedford waterfront hotel
NEW
BEDFORD — The developer planning a 106-room hotel on the
city's waterfront announced Tuesday that Marriott
International Inc. has approved a franchise for a
Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott at the site. [read
more]
Date posted: 5/15/2008
BCC cites positive effects to come from expanded New
Bedford campus
NEW
BEDFORD — Bristol Community College officials said
Tuesday a new, greatly expanded downtown campus would
have a number of positive effects on the city and
surrounding communities. [read
more]
Date posted: 5/15/2008
Patrick lists city sites among state's new 'growth
districts'
NEW
BEDFORD — The state is designating the Fairhaven Mills
and Hicks Logan areas straddling Interstate 195 along
the Acushnet River as one of 16 "growth districts," Gov.
Deval L. Patrick announced Thursday. [read
more]
Date posted: 5/15/2008
WHALE going back to its roots in New Bedford
neighborhoods
NEW
BEDFORD — The Waterfront Historic Area League, known as
WHALE, is going back to its roots as it marks its 46th
year. WHALE plans to return to focusing on New
Bedford and tackling a neighborhood at a time, much [read
more]
Date posted: 5/15/2008
Flower shop sprouts up in New Bedford downtown
NEW
BEDFORD — Ana L. Grochmal says downtown New Bedford is
the perfect place to do business and her only regret is
she did not move her florist shop from South Dartmouth
to downtown sooner. [read
more]
Date posted: 5/15/2008
Despite tough economy, zoo's business roars in April
NEW
BEDFORD — A multitude of sounds fill the air at the
Buttonwood Park Zoo but the sweetest, to those who
oversee its operation, is the jingle of coins. A record
33,521 people visited the zoo in the month of April. [read
more]
Date posted: 5/15/2008
Helping BCC helps us all
We can't wait to see the expanded downtown New Bedford
campus of Bristol Community College. With the
capacity that $10 million can buy, the school predicts it could
double its enrollment, providing another 1,500 seats for [read
more]
Date posted: 5/15/2008
Montigny proposes new, expanded BCC campus for New
Bedford
NEW BEDFORD — State Sen. Mark C.W. Montigny said today
he is putting forward a plan for a new, separate campus for
Bristol Community College in this city’s downtown that could
triple the college’s existing space, consolidate [read
more]
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] |
