BusinessTalk with Angela Park, president of Springfield Performing Arts Ventures Inc.
It’s called 52 Sumner. That’s a street address in Springfield, but it’s also an intriguing new addition to the arts landscape in Western Mass. — an event space created in the former Faith United Churc...
22 Apr 202419min
BusinessTalk with Tara Brewster, vice president of Business Development and director of Philanthropy at Greenfield Savings Bank
Tara Brewster has come a long way from her years in the world of men’s clothing. Over the past several years as vice president of Business Development and director of Philanthropy at Greenfield Saving...
15 Apr 202422min
BusinessTalk with Chris Freeman, executive director of Parlor Room Collective
In 1979, the Iron Horse Music Hall opened inside a nondescript storefront on Center Street in Northampton — and launched four decades of music and memories. After it was shuttered a few years ago, the...
8 Apr 202420min
BusinessTalk with Delcie Bean, owner of Paragus Strategic I.T.
When BusinessWest celebrates its Difference Makers class of 2024 on April 10, one of the honorees will be Delcie Bean, who has been a fixture in the region’s IT space for the past two decades — and ha...
1 Apr 202419min
BusinessTalk with Mary Kay Wydra, president of the Greater Springfield Convention & Visitors Bureau
Tourism is critical to the economic energy of Western Mass. — it’s often the first experience people have with the region, and can be a strong factor in whether they want to move or work here. And the...
25 Mar 202421min
BusinessTalk with Sarah Tsitso, executive director of the Forest Park Zoo
Today’s zoos — the best ones, anyway — have come a long way from what they used to be, and the Zoo in Forest Park and Education Center is a prime example, honing over the years its focus on education,...
18 Mar 202422min
BusinessTalk with Hannah Rechtschaffen, director of the Greenfield Business Association
Hannah Rechtschaffen has long been passionate about the intersection between the arts, economic growth, and community building, and she’s found a place for all that and much more as director of the ...
11 Mar 202419min
BusinessTalk with Curio and Frank Nataloni, owners of Kitchens by Curio
Fifty years ago, Curio Nataloni was laid off from a construction job and started doing solo kitchen projects. Ten years after he launched that business, his brother, Frank, joined him full-time, and j...
4 Mar 202418min
