WGBH general manager Marita Rivero will step down in June after 30 years at the Boston public broadcaster, WGBH said Friday. Rivero will be succeeded by two individuals from her senior staff: Liz Cheng, currently general manager of WGBH’s national digital multicast channel WORLD, has been named general manager for television, and Phil Redo, currently managing director of 89.7 WGBH and WCAI, has been named general manager for radio, said WGBH, which added that Rivero “will remain of counsel to WGBH leadership.” It was Rivero’s decision to step down as general manager, a WGBH spokesman said. WGBH said that Rivero is responsible for WGBH’s signature programs and community initiatives, including the global news program The World on 89.7-FM, and Greater Boston and Basic Black on WGBH 2. The long-stalled Filene’s redevelopment in downtown Boston will resume within days, as the project’s developer has signed the advertising firm Arnold Worldwide to occupy a large chunk of a $620 million complex of new offices, stores, and luxury homes. The upcoming work will bring life back to the property and accelerate the broader revitalization of Downtown Crossing, where the blight at Filene’s has undermined an otherwise robust period of construction activity in the area. Construction on the property will unfold gradually. Developer Millennium Partners will start by rebuilding the original Filene’s store into a retail and office building for Arnold and other tenants. Months later, it will proceed with construction of a 50-plus story tower containing apartments, condominiums and additional stores. Love your job and where you work? Tell us all about it. Nominate your organization for The Boston Globe’s Top Places to Work survey, our annual ranking of the most progressive employers in the state. All kinds of employers are eligible, from public and private companies to nonprofits. They have to be operating in Massachusetts and employ more than 50 people. If your organization is nominated and agrees to participate, employees will be surveyed by our partner, WorkPlaceDynamics LLC. Employers will be measured on six factors including leadership and opportunities for training. All responses are confidential, and the results will be published in November, online and in a special Top Places to Work magazine inserted into the Boston Sunday Globe. Six Flags New England, the theme park in Agawam, is gearing up for its opening day Saturday, with its Bizarro roller coaster all ready to go. Six Flag New England’s first official dance crew will kick off opening weekend with three Saturday performances, the park said. And let’s not forget “Pets Overboard,” a live theatrical event that is part of the park’s summer show line-up. The plot for this high-seas adventure? A captain and a crew of critters search for lost treasure. During opening day weekend, guests who donate six nonperishable food items will receive a special admission price of $20.13. (The regular adult rate is $54.99) A portion of each ticket sold will benefit the Sandy Hook Family Healing Fund. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a Boston company with a venerable textbook heritage, said it has increased its in-house game development skills by acquired Tribal Nova, a Montréal-based educational technology company focused on developing digital games, products, and services for pre-school children. “Brooks Brothers meets Bond movie” was the headline of a July story in the Globe about Ministry of Supply, an online Boston haberdasher with MIT roots that looks to refashion the wardrobes of business types by using space-age fabrics. Drug giant Pfizer Inc. said it is planning to relocate the majority of its 530 employees at research facilities in the Alewife neighborhood of Cambridge to Kendall Square in Cambridge; sometime next year, they will join roughly 400 Pfizer employees who are already working in Kendall Square, a hotbed of the life sciences industry. | | |
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