diff --git a/extensions/data-workspace/src/common/constants.ts b/extensions/data-workspace/src/common/constants.ts
index 0173be6b24..a74be5a0c7 100644
--- a/extensions/data-workspace/src/common/constants.ts
+++ b/extensions/data-workspace/src/common/constants.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ export const SelectProjectFileActionName = localize('SelectProjectFileActionName
 export const AllProjectTypes = localize('AllProjectTypes', "All Project Types");
 export const ProviderNotFoundForProjectTypeError = (projectType: string): string => { return localize('UnknownProjectTypeError', "No provider was found for project type with id: '{0}'", projectType); };
 export const RestartConfirmation = localize('dataworkspace.restartConfirmation', "Azure Data Studio needs to be restarted for the project to be added to the workspace. Restart now?");
-export const ProjectsFailedToLoad = localize('dataworkspace.projectsFailedToLoad', "Some projects failed to load. To view more details, [open the developer console](command:workbench.action.toggleDevTools)");
+export const projectFailedToLoad = (project: string, error: string) => { return localize('projectFailedToLoad', "Project '{0}' failed to load: {1}  To view more details, [open the developer console](command:workbench.action.toggleDevTools).", project, error) };
 export const fileDoesNotExist = (name: string): string => { return localize('fileDoesNotExist', "File '{0}' doesn't exist", name); };
 export const projectNameNull = localize('projectNameNull', "Project name is null");
 export const noPreviousData = (tableName: string): string => { return localize('noPreviousData', "Prior {0} for the current project will appear here, please run to see the results.", tableName); };
diff --git a/extensions/data-workspace/src/common/utils.ts b/extensions/data-workspace/src/common/utils.ts
index a300a58b8e..1be645a7ef 100644
--- a/extensions/data-workspace/src/common/utils.ts
+++ b/extensions/data-workspace/src/common/utils.ts
@@ -91,3 +91,12 @@ export async function showInfoMessageWithLearnMoreLink(message: string, link: st
 		void vscode.env.openExternal(vscode.Uri.parse(link));
 	}
 }
+
+/**
+ * Consolidates on the error message string
+ */
+export function getErrorMessage(error: any): string {
+	return (error instanceof Error)
+		? (typeof error.message === 'string' ? error.message : '')
+		: typeof error === 'string' ? error : `${JSON.stringify(error, undefined, '\t')}`;
+}
diff --git a/extensions/data-workspace/src/common/workspaceTreeDataProvider.ts b/extensions/data-workspace/src/common/workspaceTreeDataProvider.ts
index efb6b10592..51bc35b674 100644
--- a/extensions/data-workspace/src/common/workspaceTreeDataProvider.ts
+++ b/extensions/data-workspace/src/common/workspaceTreeDataProvider.ts
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@
 import * as vscode from 'vscode';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import { IWorkspaceService } from './interfaces';
-import { dragAndDropNotSupported, onlyMovingOneFileIsSupported, ProjectsFailedToLoad, UnknownProjectsError } from './constants';
+import { dragAndDropNotSupported, onlyMovingOneFileIsSupported, projectFailedToLoad, UnknownProjectsError } from './constants';
 import { WorkspaceTreeItem } from 'dataworkspace';
 import { TelemetryReporter } from './telemetry';
+import { getErrorMessage } from './utils';
 import Logger from './logger';
 
 /**
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ export class WorkspaceTreeDataProvider implements vscode.TreeDataProvider<Worksp
 
 			const typeMetric: Record<string, number> = {};
 
-			let errorCount = 0;
+			let errorMessages: { project: vscode.Uri, errorMessage: string }[] = [];
 			for (const project of projects) {
 				try {
 					const projectProvider = await this._workspaceService.getProjectProvider(project);
@@ -79,13 +80,15 @@ export class WorkspaceTreeDataProvider implements vscode.TreeDataProvider<Worksp
 						});
 					});
 				} catch (e) {
-					errorCount++;
+					errorMessages.push({ project: project, errorMessage: getErrorMessage(e) });
 					console.error(e.message);
 				}
 			}
 
-			if (errorCount > 0) {
-				void vscode.window.showErrorMessage(ProjectsFailedToLoad);
+			if (errorMessages.length > 0) {
+				for (let error of errorMessages) {
+					void vscode.window.showErrorMessage(projectFailedToLoad(path.basename(error.project.fsPath), error.errorMessage + (error.errorMessage.endsWith('.') ? '' : '.')));
+				}
 			}
 
 			TelemetryReporter.sendMetricsEvent(typeMetric, 'OpenWorkspaceProjectTypes');