WORCESTER IS FERTILE GROUND FOR NEW & EXPANDING SERVICE, CREATIVE FIRMS
OPPORTUNITY LEADS TO COMMUNITY
Priced out of many regional metropolitan areas, Travis Duda and his wife landed in Worcester where they found “more bang for [their] buck” and purchased a home. Bringing with him his previously side-gig graphic design company, Hunchback Graphics, Mr. Duda said the growth he’s experienced – including designs for the upcoming Polar Park – would not have been possible elsewhere.
Working in MetroWest, “I was taking clients wherever I could find them,” said Mr. Duda. After moving to Worcester, “I got a local opportunity followed by another and another and I stopped pursuing outside work.”
The connections he’s made are more than business-to-business transactions. “I’ve never felt as connected to a place as I do in Worcester. I’ve found my people – a bunch of working-class, hard-nosed people,” said Mr. Duda.
Expressing a similar affinity for the people of the city, said Michael Feldman, president and CEO of Feldman Land Surveyors, it was the fact that he could run into a high-level executive on his way to lunch one afternoon, a true story, that sealed the deal.
“Even though we’re an established business,” he said, in Worcester, “it feels like we’re doing fun startup [work]. However, because we’re not a startup, we can talk to people” about programming we’ve perfected over years.
