Thanks for your interest in Gloucester, a coastal city whose location, workforce and life style make it an attractive candidate for anyone looking to expand an existing business or start a new one.
Location
Gloucester offers easy access for companies, employees, buyers and suppliers to and from major highways and commuter-rail services, as well as two major airports and Boston Harbor. This proximity extends Gloucester’s reach to the renowned education, research, healthcare and business centers of Boston and Cambridge, and an unmatched talent pool. It also provides an extensive supply chain network for all types of businesses from high-tech to classic crafts.
Airports serving Gloucester with domestic and international passenger and cargo flights include Boston’s Logan International Airport (34 miles), Manchester, NH, Regional Airport (57 miles) and Portsmouth, NH, International Airport (59 miles).
The Port of Boston has major cargo and passenger cruise terminals making it one of the East Coast’s principal ports.
Regular commuter rail service provides convenient access to and from Boston and other Massachusetts communities and CATA offers convenient local buss service throughout Cape Ann
Workforce
Few communities offer the diversity of talent found in Gloucester. Gloucester is in a multi-talented human ecosystem of people committed to hard work. It includes PhD scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, professional managers, small business owners and operators, skilled craftsman whose work is found worldwide and noted writers, artists and musicians, It draws heavily on the abundance of top-rated higher education institutions in Greater Boston, as well as vocational training, specialized education, internships and on-the-job learning.
In addition to educational institutions and a robust labor pool, the Boston area offers employers and employees access to some of the world’s leading research, healthcare and financial institutions.
Life Style
Gloucester’s business growth opportunities are matched by a cultural community and recreational backdrop that create an extraordinary quality of life for those who live and work here. The city’s eight beaches and stunning seacoast are marked by lighthouses, parks, and nature preserves. Residents, commuters and visitors are engaged in the Gloucester community through abundant recreational opportunities. Gloucester Harbor, originally Beauport, or beautiful harbor, and the waters around Cape Ann attract boaters, sailors, fisherman and whale watchers. Events include fishing tournaments, fairs and the annual Schooner Festival.
Gloucester is the center of the Cape Ann region’s arts, music and theater community. It is home to two designated Cultural Districts: the downtown Harbortown Cultural District and the Rocky Neck Cultural District, site of the country’s oldest working art colony.
Throughout the city and Cape Ann are well-known museums, such as the Cape Ann Museum that is home to the largest grouping of works by renowned marine artist and native son Fitz Henry Lane, prominent performance centers including the Gloucester Stage Company and Rockport’s Shalin Liu Performance Center, as well as an abundance of restaurants.
