08/25/2020
WE LOVE OUR EDGE AND GRIT
Revolutions are familiar here in Worcester; actually, they’re our thing. Since colonial days, our little metropolis has been a center of innovation and education. We love our colorful history and take pride in our innovative past. Yes, we have a past! We embrace everything that makes our community vibrant—all the inventions of our disruptors and all their fantastic firsts, like the first reading of the Declaration of Independence, the first liquid fuel rocket and professional baseball’s first perfect game. The valentine was invented here, and the lunch car diner; the monkey wrench, candlepin bowling, and barbed wire.
With over ten world-class colleges and universities, we are a magnet for strategists, a center for the arts, technology, engineering, robotics, aerospace, medicine and science. Our talented people are putting this historic city back on the map. Newcomers, if they take the time to look, can’t help but be impressed by life in the heart of the Commonwealth; and we are proud that many of them have become our biggest cheerleaders! The presence of so many elite educational opportunities in Worcester indicate that our workforce is highly skilled and well-trained. The education and expertise of Worcester's workforce has been on the radar of businesses in the fields of health, tech, pharma, biomed, robotics, manufacturing and other professional services.
Worcester’s major developments in downtown, in biotech, high tech, cyber security and the gaming industries and in manufacturing emphasize the city’s areas of newest growth. Emerging industries like as fiber optics, electronics, and advanced ceramics are growing as well.
And the secret, really, lies in our incredible mix of people. Like an old New England factory itself, Worcester doesn’t put on airs and pretend to be something better. Worcester is proud of it’s blue collar roots and accentuates them with it’s earned culture and history.
“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange[rs].”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities