New Hampshire Business Review - July 17, 2026

July 17, 2026

Mental Health Care Concept. Hands Holding Paper Head With Brain

Benchmark at Rye completes expansion

NH Business Review Staff,

Benchmark at Rye, an assisted living and mind and memory care community, opened a new 60,000-square-foot addition at its Route 1 campus, welcoming its first residents on May 1.

Full STEAM ahead for ArtLab

Contributed to NH Business Review,

The Currier Museum of Art is expanding ArtLab, its hands-on, after-school STEAM partnership with Nashua Public Schools, after a pilot year that reached 58 students at four schools and connected classroom learning with art on view at the museum.

Legislature’s session changes housing, child care, tax policies

Phil Sletten,

The Legislature wrapped up its session last month with the passage of a wide variety of bills, some of which have already been signed into law.

Q&A with Wire Belt CEO Jonathan Greer

Amanda Andrews, Mike Cote,

A company whose products are essential to manufacturing and food production worldwide is headquartered in a former Walmart building in Bedford, New Hampshire.

Confidence in economy waning, companies cautious

Mark Hayward,

New Hampshire businesses seem to be hitting the summertime blues. Over a two-week period ending June 28, the percentage of businesses describing their performance as above average or better tumbled 5 points, and only 47% of businesses said they were…

NH Business Notebook: Boston’s financial dynasty

Mike Cote,

Before you judge a man you’re about to write about, you might want to walk a mile in his shoes. While conducting research for the book that would become “House of Fidelity,” Justin Baer…

Dartmouth professor honored for developing ‘camera-on-a-chip’ that powers smartphones

Mike Cote,

Eric Fossum co-invented technology that grew out of research at NASA

Navigating your financial journey in wealth and trust planning

Mark Paluzzi,

Whether you are planning for long-term growth, managing income needs, or preparing the next generation, wealth management often involves balancing multiple priorities.

Firing up the fans

Nate Graziano,

When New Hampshire Fisher Cats General Manager Taylor Fisher was hired on Halloween of 2024, his bosses at Diamond Baseball Holdings (DBH) advised him to use his first year on the job to observe and evaluate the organization, and figure out what needed to be tackled.

NH’s ‘Optics Valley’

Paul Briand,

Precision optics is likely one of the biggest manufacturing sectors in New Hampshire that most Granite Staters have never heard of.

More news from NHBR:

‘What must remain human?’ Dartmouth AI conference opens without a clear answer

Dartmouth College opened its “AI at 70” conference Thursday morning, Oct. 29, with a session called “The Future Worth Building is Human.”

(Opinion) Utilities learn to communicate through uncertainty

On Nov. 26, 2015, heavy wet snow was falling, with a forecast warning of an impending storm for days. The phone rings, and before I answer it, I already know what the reporter is going to ask.

(Opinion) From mill town to river town

New Hampshire has more than 10,000 miles of rivers, many of which flow through downtowns.

(Opinion) Investing in youth mental health in New Hampshire

The nationwide youth mental health crisis has seen marked improvements in New Hampshire since 2021, but the problem is still far from fixed. Indeed, while the measured outcomes are getting better compared to the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the figures today are still historically concerning compared to a decade ago.

(Opinion) People with disabilities are an untapped resource

New Hampshire employers spend considerable time and resources trying to find dependable employees who want to work. Yet there is a segment of our population that is too often overlooked: adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Come to the table

Reliable, accessible childcare is an economic advantage that helps New Hampshire businesses attract and retain employees, strengthen their workforce and support long-term growth.

Growing with grace

Identifying growing and grace as my top two values helped me focus on who I want to be and how I want to show up. Revisiting these six years later, I am pleased that these ideas still ring true.

Are prediction markets revenue ripe for picking in NH?

To many people, prediction markets and sports gaming are a distinction without a difference. Which begs the question: Should New Hampshire be regulating prediction markets, especially as they apply to sports, the same way it regulates — and draws revenue from — sports betting via DraftKings?

(Market & Main Streets) Employers follow workers

Over the course of my career, I have attended my share of ribbon-cuttings that were the result of a lot of effort to recruit a new company into the state.