Posts in category City Issues

Hospitals Nursing Homes Airports Subsidizing the cost of affordable housing Tennis Golf Pool Convention Centers Train Stations Parking Garages   #Worcpoli to hear of need …

This is the name of the report filed by the City Auditor last Tuesday as item number 13A.  Here are the highlights: WRS=Worcester Retirement Plan …

Reviewing the City of Worcester top 250 wage earners that was posted in the City Council meeting Tuesday night, we have a question.   City …

Let’s look at the City Auditor analysis again tonight, click here. Current Taxable Assessed Value (FY16) equals    11,236,881,245 Assume it increases 1.8% next year …

Last week in the City Council meeting agenda, we were able to find and review some projections made by the City Auditor, here is the …

Although it finally got its first tenant when an existing neighbor, Absolute Machinery expanded, there are five remaining parcels with an assessed value in excess …

The former site of the Webster House,   1 Webster Street, the taxes now will run approximately $4,500 per year when they were approximately $25,000. …

119 Dewey Street Recently purchased by the Mount Zion Sanctuary Assembly.   Loss to the City of Worcester of approximately $7,000 per year. Rolling total of …

5 Blackstone River Road  , the former home of the Teamsters Union, is now owned byTHE CHURCH OF PENTECOST USA IN.   Approximate loss is …

60 Mason Street was previously a manufacturing facility until  Redemption Christian Church bought this building in 1998.   Approximate loss is about 30,000 per year. Rolling …

150 Goddard and 152 Goodard use to pay $45,000 per year in taxes, but now paying nothing after the Seven Hills purchase. Rolling total of …

If you were thinking of moving our business would you move to Worcester? Link to the meeting. Must times to watch:   14:20  Wanda speaks …

Remember when Demers Goodyear was located at 333 Pleasant Street.  Today it is currently owned by Mount Zion Christian Church and the use is now …

Remember that company ??    Before it was sold in 2007, this property probably paid $20,000 per year in property taxes. Now it 9 Piedmont …

Once upon a time this building was home to J & J Truck.  There was another business there but we forgot the name right now. …

  Over the next 12-24 months, the excess tax levy will disappear and the budget submitted by the City Administration will exceed the maximum revenues …

On December 8th, we posted a column “What excess tax levy capacity” after Nick Kotsopoulos wrote a great column the prior Sunday in the Telegram …

Charter Worcester Retail store at 95 Higgins Street. The retail store will be relocating to our new location on 867 Grafton Street, Worcester. So there …

Tuesday night the City Auditor is presenting Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the year ended June 30, 2015. item 8a. Pension liability increases from …

Please see the T&G story below. Here we go again with stabbings taking place in our neighborhood right outside 7 Nana. I see there license …