The Charles River Regional Chamber last week celebrated its first in-person fall breakfast in 3 years, its first since changing its name from the Newton-Needham Regional Chamber and adding Wellesley to its ranks. Among a few hundred new and old friends, attendees were reminded that we’re in this together—this being a re-emergence from pandemic isolation, new thinking about commercial and real estate development, and how we live our lives.
“In this day and age when we’re talking about housing, and talking about transportation, these are not local issues, these are regional issues and these are state issues,” said Wellesley Executive Director Meghan Jop, speaking on a panel of municipal leaders at the gathering. “Just looking around the room thinking about all the ideas alone that would be in this room to improve Wellesley businesses, Needham, Newton, Watertown collectively is just going to improve the community as a…
