Ware-based Country Bank is planning to put up a branch in Springfield by 2025 to establish a physical presence there amid growth opportunities and intensifying competition in the Western Massachusetts market.
After opening a loan office in downtown Springfield in October, Connecticut-based Liberty Bank officially opened its first bank branch in Massachusetts following successful expansion of its business lending in the Pioneer Valley this year.
Connecticut-based Liberty Bank recently opened a new loan office in Springfield, and is set to open a full-size branch in East Longmeadow “later this fall” as it chases what it believes is strong growth potential in the Western Massachusetts market.
The Pioneer Valley banking scene has a new entrant, in the form of Liberty Bank.
Dozens of Western Massachusetts residents packed into the Northampton Senior Center on Tuesday, urging policymakers to make frequent, affordable rail service connecting the state’s eastern and western halves a reality.
Citing “strong” ridership, state officials and Amtrak announced Friday that train service for passengers traveling between western Massachusetts and New York City will become permanent.
The gap between Greater Boston and the rest of the state is a microcosm of what has happened across the United States over the past 40 years with Boston sucking in the talent and investment.
Desperate buyers waiving home inspections and going way over asking. A steadily shrinking pool of homes available for sale. Yes, the tidal wave of homebuying unleashed by the pandemic in the suburbs of big urban markets across the country has reached bucolic, quirky and cultured Western Massachusetts.
As Massachusetts works to claw its way back from the economic upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders in the western part of the state see an opportunity to generate new interest in the region’s offerings.
Springfield-based Freedom Credit Union has expanded its field of membership to include Hartford and Tolland counties in Connecticut.
For the first time in over two years, Randolph-based Envision Bank has had a profitable quarter. The bank attributed declining mortgage rates and four new loan production offices in Central and Western Massachusetts for the success.
Cheryl Malandrinos of Real Living Realty Professionals in Wilbraham was named the 2019 Realtor of the Year by the Realtor Association of Pioneer Valley
A 150-year-old brick mill in Holyoke could soon become a hub for Massachusetts’ burgeoning marijuana industry following a $3.2 million sale.
To listen to all the corporate speak coming out of Raytheon and United Technologies over the past few days, you’d think one of the biggest mergers in New England history will involve all gain and no pain.
Armed with emails and social media comments from more than 700 Western Massachusetts residents, two lawmakers pitched the Transportation Committee on studying an east-west passenger rail connection between Boston, Greenfield and North Adams.
The CEO of Westmass Area Development Corporation, the Chicopee-based business development nonprofit, died suddenly last week.
Despite trouble reaching profitability, Randolph-based Envision Bank is not giving up and turning toward growth mode.
When lawmakers reduced the corporate tax rate at the end of last year, it was supposed to open the flood gates for what had already been an extremely healthy economic climate. While tax reform is expected to yield long-term benefits, it has yet to translate into the increased loan demand
Tony Liberopoulos embodies United’s key employee cultural attributes: “he’s friendly, caring and respectful to co-workers and in our communities.” And that’s not effusive nomination praise; it’s how Liberopoulos lives his life.
