In the 1980s, General Electric began pulling up stakes from its longtime home in Pittsfield. That move was just one of many that precipitated a long “economic trauma” for the city, located smack in the middle of Massachusetts’ westernmost county. That’s the way 1Berkshire President and CEO Jonathan Butler describes the events and, given the facts, there’s little other way to look at it. Read more about Pittsfield’s restoration >>
