ang="EN-US">In recent decades, a renewed interest in
the city’s downtown has brought new investment and construction to Worcester. A
Convention Center was built along the DCU Center arena in downtown Worcester in
1997. In 2000, Worcester’s Union Station reopened after 25 years of neglect and
a $32 million renovation. Hanover Insurance helped fund a multimillion dollar
renovation to the old Franklin Square Theater into the Hanover Theatre for the
Performing Arts. In 2000, the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health
Sciences built a new campus in downtown Worcester. In 2007 WPI opened the first
facility in their new Gateway Park center in Lincoln Square. In 2004, Berkeley
Investments proposed demolishing the old Worcester Center Galleria for a new
mixed-used development called City Square. The ambitious project looked to
reconnect old street patterns while creating a new retail, commercial and
living destination in the city. After struggling to secure finances for a
number of years Hanover Insurance took over the project and demolition began on
September 13, 2010. Unum Insurance and the Saint Vincent Hospital leased into
the project and both facilities opened in 2013. The new Front Street opened on
December 31, 2012
