Greendale Revitalization Inititative

02/11/2026

The Worcester Business Development Corp., the City, and representatives of organized labor have signed a community benefit agreement for the 51-acre development.

11/18/2025

11/07/2025

Happy Friday! 🌤️

Progress continues at GreenTech Park! 🚧 The contractor has begun demolition of the remaining two buildings along New Bond Street in Quadrant 3. With the majority of inground remediation work now complete, foundation demolition is expected to begin shortly.

Exciting steps forward as we prepare this site for the next phase of development! 💚

09/26/2025

Crews have been hard at work on site!

This time-lapse captures progress along the lower section of New Bond Street from early August through this week. 📹

During this period, significant material and debris sorting took place in preparation for off-site removal and disposal. Concrete crushing and stockpiling were also underway.

Rail played a key role: empty cars were delivered, loaded, and hauled away, with a new set currently being filled. 🚂 Using rail has helped minimize truck traffic through the neighborhood.

Crews also performed excavation and remediation work, while swapping out equipment in preparation for the next major milestone—the demolition of the remaining buildings on site. 🏗️

07/07/2025

ICYMI: Spectrum News 1 Worcester featured the exciting progress at GreenTech Park last week with our EVP, Roberta Brien! 🌿🏗️

https://bit.ly/4lfZtY4

We’re proud to share that the first two quadrants of the site are ready for development — a major milestone in building a sustainable hub for advanced manufacturing in Worcester.

🚧 Big things are happening — and this is just the beginning.

06/25/2025

📣 The public campaign to support the future of Norton Hall has officially launched!

This iconic Worcester landmark holds decades of history—and now the community has a chance to be part of what comes next. There are two ways to show your support:

📘 Purchase a commemorative book celebrating the rich history of Norton Hall
💙 Make a general donation to support future plans for the site

Between the contributions already made by Saint-Gobain and the WBDC, we are 40% to our goal!

🔗 Learn more and get involved at https://www.thewbdc.com/new-garden-park

05/06/2025

Demolition Progress Update 🚧

Yesterday, the metal silos on Quadrants 1 & 2 were safely taken down for further dismantling. This marks another step forward in transforming the site, with final demolition on this section scheduled to be completed by the end of the month.

Stay tuned as we continue making way for new opportunities! 👷‍♂️🏗️

03/28/2025

🌟 Happy Friday! 🚜✨

Exciting progress at GreenTech Park! 🏗️ The demolition and remediation of Quadrants 1 & 2 are moving fast — 98% of above-ground structures have been demolished and removed! 👏

🔹 Quadrant 2: Foundation removal is underway before final grading.
🔹 Quadrant 3: Work is set to resume this spring as the contractor shifts focus back.

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue transforming this site! 🔄💪

03/21/2025

The Worcester Business Development Corporation's EVP Roberta Brien speaks with the Worcester Telegram & Gazette to discuss plans for the site:

11/01/2024

We were thrilled to welcome Governor Healey, Lieutenant Governor Driscoll, Secretary Hao, Secretary Augustus and various other elected officials to celebrate the announcement of $161M for economic development projects via the Community One Stop for Growth program. Thank you to the Healey-Driscoll Administration for choosing our project to host this exciting event for so many communities across the Commonwealth.

10/09/2024

Photo Dump! 📸🚜

The demolition of Refractory Plant 1 was completed the week of September 23rd. The contractor is also focused on relocation of materials from the site and removal of foundations to allow for pad ready development sites.

The project has sent approximately 15.2 million pounds of construction debris from the site via rail. This has alleviated approximately 345 tractor trailers from being on the highways.

Quadrant 3 activities have slowed down in order to reclaim salvage wood as well as consolidate debris and materials.

08/26/2024

Happy Monday! A lot of progress has been made on the site:

Last Tuesday at 10AM the contractor began demolition of buildings along New Bond Street to start the Quadrant 3 portion of the demolition. In this short time frame, we were able to demolish the HGTC Powder Process building (Bldg 410), House Keeping Storage (BLDG 411), Office Building #2 (412) and 75% of Mill #3 (413). Over the next week they will continue to process the materials from the demolition and make room to continue to demolish the buildings heading West towards I-190. There are only a few buildings remaining along I-190 at this point. Foundation demolition will begin in the next few weeks to allow for pad mounted ready sites for future development.