WBJ Staff

Framingham healthcare data provider Definitive Healthcare has purchased a Florida software analytics firm. The purchase is expected to help life science companies and healthcare providers find patients who would benefit from their products and services.

Thanks to a $4.2 loan from Eastern Bank, a biomedical device factory at Devens will be expanded by summer.

Construction is underway on $24-million renovation of the Worcester YWCA. The project has already hit a milestone what the nonprofit says is the city's first community benefits agreement, which ensures an all-women led construction management team led by Milford's Consigli Construction.

A $12.7-million energy performance contract between Ameresco Inc., an energy efficiency company, and the New Bedford Housing Authority, promises to provide $19.6 million in energy and water cost savings between now and 2036.

Ashland company M&M Moving and Storage Co. has bought and will soon move into the former Westborough home of Lew Horton Distributing Co.

A sprawling warehouse on Forge Parkway in Franklin has sold for $20 million in the latest major transaction of an industrial facility in town.

A report released Thursday by the Worcester Regional Research Bureau says Worcester is trailing five other Central Massachusetts communities in its commitment to creating a walkable city.

Collaborative workspaces in Worcester and Fitchburg took in $200,000 in funding announced Thursday by the Gov. Charlie Baker Administration.

HMEA will have a new president and CEO starting in July. Jule Gomes Noack, the agency’s president and chief operating officer, will lead the Franklin nonprofit whose mission is to provide services for people with developmental disabilities.

A fourth Massachusetts resident, a Middlesex County man, has died from a lung illness tied to vaping, the state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday.