Innovation District Task Force Meeting Scheduled

February 4th, 2010 / Posted by MassTech

The second meeting of the Holyoke Innovation District Design and Development Task Force will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at Holyoke Heritage State Park. A formal agenda will be available approximately a week prior to the meeting date.

For more information about the Task Force and previous meetings, please see “About the Project” on this website.

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An Inspiring Class of Difference Makers

February 2nd, 2010 / Posted by MassTech

When BusinessWest launched its Difference Makers program a year ago, it did so with many goals in mind. The first, of course, was to recognize people and institutions making important contributions to the health and well-being of this region. Beyond that, through the telling of their stories, we wanted to inspire others to make a difference as well.

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Holyoke Computing Center Panel First Meeting

January 28th, 2010 / Posted by MassTech

According to the Massachusetts Republican [online edition], a 28-member panel task force will meet for the first time on Thursday to discuss the fate of $80 million destined for a supercomputing center in Holyoke.  The Holyoke High Performance Computing Center Innovation District Design and Development Task Force [come on, what else would they call it!?] consists of officials, academics and business luminaries from Western Massachusetts.  The governor unveiled the task force during a recent visit.

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Research center creating a buzz

January 19th, 2010 / Posted by MassTech

HOLYOKE – A new task force created to help the region reap the benefits of a planned $80 million high performance computer center has been assured by a state official that construction would begin by this fall.

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The Holyoke G&E Makes Some Powerful Statements

January 15th, 2010 / Posted by MassTech

It was a spirit of entrepreneurship that made Holyoke into one of New England’s most vibrant industrial centers more than a century ago. Today, that spirit lives on in a place where one might not expect to find it — at the city’s 107-year-old municipal utility. The Holyoke Gas & Electric Department…

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Innovation District Task Force Meeting Scheduled

January 12th, 2010 / Posted by MassTech

The newly-formed Holyoke Innovation District Design and Development Task Force is holding its first meeting on Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. at the Holyoke Heritage State Park Visitors Center Exhibit Hall. The Task Force’s mission is to represent the economic development interests of the city of Holyoke and the Pioneer Valley through active dialogue and participation during the development of a vision, design, and development plan for the innovation district to be anchored by a world-class, state-of-the-art High Performance Computing Center. A detailed agenda can be viewed here.

For examples of other High Performance Computing Center Districts, please see the following: High Performance Computing Center Districts

For photos from the meeting, click on the Flickr icon, above right.

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Bay State Poised For Recovery

December 28th, 2009 / Posted by MassTech

By Gov. Deval Patrick

Worcester Business Journal

Like a lot of businesses and families, I will not be sorry to say goodbye to 2009. The global economic collapse hit the commonwealth hard this year, and caused a lot of damage. But we stayed true to our values, adjusted promptly and responsibly, and, as a result, look forward to better tomorrows ahead in 2010. Here’s why.

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The Best Local Business Stories of 2009

December 28th, 2009 / Posted by MassTech

BusinessWest Editorial

Let’s face it, 2009 certainly wasn’t anything for the business community to write home about.

For many, this was a year to simply hang in and hang on, a time when ‘flat’ translated into ‘pretty darned good.’ For businesses large and small, this was a time best forgotten — and soon.

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Holyoke “Green Business Grows Here”

December 15th, 2009 / Posted by MassTech

The City of Holyoke has developed a promotional video to market the City to potential business, industry, realtors, and developers. The video/dvd, titled, “Holyoke: Green Business Grows Here”, touches on the city’s historic past as the “Queen of Industrial Cities,” while at the same time demonstrating that Holyoke, MA is the ideal place for any kind of modern business.  You can view the video by clicking on the link below. The video is also on Holyoke’s website at www.hged.com/video, and you can contact the Holyoke Office of Planning and Development for more information.

Click here to go to YouTube.

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Thank You to Our Cloud3 Speakers, Seeders, Sponsors, and Underwriters–And an Update on Speaker Slides

December 14th, 2009 / Posted by MassTech

Wade Roush 12/11/09

Here at Xconomy, the stories we cover give us great ideas for networking events, and at our events we meet great people who give us ideas for more articles. Our Cloud³ Forum on Thursday was a perfect example. Every company on yesterday’s agenda is working on technologies we’ve chronicled—and will keep chronicling—in these pages, including Akamai, Allurent, Cloudswitch, EMC, Iron Mountain, Litl, Microsoft, Pixily, and Sonian.

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