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BY Cam Jandrow Worcester
PUBLISHED 8:10 AM ET Oct. 08, 2026
WORCESTER, Mass. – The former Fallon Health building on Worcester’s Elm Street is getting a second life. Developer Synergy has transformed the facility into the apartment complex Altitude Worcester. The 198-unit conversion of the former Fallon headquarters is being described as Worcester’s biggest adaptive reuse project.
Inside the building, a piece of art with 39 candlepins hang on the wall as a tribute to the game created mere feet away from the apartment complex.
“My art of fusing history, art, and technology really goes well with being able to honor the history of what was there,” said artist Bruce Rosenbaum. “But now telling the story of adaptation and resilience.”
Rosenbaum constructed the piece as part of Altitude’s all-Massachusetts artists program.
Synergy worked with ArtsWorcester to build the art program, which features dozens of original works from artists including Worcester’s Kristin Petrillo, Holden’s Tom Grady, and Sutton’s Leslie Graff. The pieces have been placed throughout the lobby, club room, leasing office, and residential floors.
Among the pieces hanging on the walls are tributes to a number of Central Massachusetts-based icons and landmarks including Coney Island and Vincent’s.
The centerpiece is a Tom Grady portrait of Robert Goddard, the father of modern rocketry and the inspiration behind the complex’s name of Altitude.
“People, they’re looking for authenticity,” Rosenbaum said. “They’re looking for inspiration.”
For Rosenbaum, who has clients around the world, this project quite literally hit home.
“Being about 45 minutes from Worcester, this was like an ideal project because I am local,” he said. “I can just jump out here and see how things are going.”
Rosenbaum is now working on a Robert Goddard sculpture for the property which he hopes is finished soon.