WBJ Staff

The City of Worcester is spending $15 million to outfit 85 facilities, including schools and municipal buildings, to install new equipment to help sanitize air during the coronavirus pandemic.

Results from a national survey released by the UMass Medical School could indicate reaching herd immunity to the coronavirus through vaccinations could be harder than hoped.

A former Macy's at the Auburn Mall, which is now used as medical offices for Reliant Medical Group, has sold for $50 million to a Los Angeles property investment firm that owns medical offices across the country.

A biotechnology arm of the UMass Medical School has signed an agreement with a New Jersey pharmaceutical company to make investigational new drugs and commercial pharmaceutical products.

Ferris Development, a Marlborough real estate investment firm, has paid nearly $3.5 million for a pair of office buildings on Route 9 in Southborough.

Reliant Medical Group, a major tenant at the Mercantile Center office tower in downtown Worcester, has renewed a lease for 55,000 square feet of space, the building's owner announced Tuesday.

A ceremonial groundbreaking is scheduled for Oct. 2 for a 90-unit housing development slated to remake a longtime industrial site in Worcester about a block from the Auburn border.

A 30,000-square-foot medical office building on Route 20 in Northborough has sold for $3.1 million to a Cambridge buyer.

Adjacent commercial buildings in a Webster retail plaza have sold for $2 million to a Charlton buyer.

College of the Holy Cross and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have landed in the top 120 schools nationally in an annual Wall Street Journal ranking released Friday.