Worcester Business Development Corp.

Kate Sharry, the owner of Auburn business consulting firm Group Benefits Strategies, is the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce's new chairwoman.

LakePharma, a biologics company with a laboratory in Worcester, has raised $30 million to open additional locations in Massachusetts and its home state of California.

The Worcester Business Development Corp. and the state signed a land disposition agreement Thursday for a planned 44-acre biomanufacturing campus near the UMass Medical School.

The Worcester Idea Lab, a two-year-old collaborative workspace, has signed its second higher education member and its first corporate member.

Clinton Savings Bank, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Venture Community Services were among the eight organization announcing new hires and promotions.

The California biologics company expected to be the first tenant is no longer lined up for redevelopment of the former Worcester State Hospital, and the land sale from the state to the Worcester Business Develolpment Corp. is behind schedule.

The chief executive of Worcester incubator Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives is on the verge of realizing his longtime vision for the city.

The California biologics company expected -- but never fully committed -- to anchor the 500,000-square-foot biomanufacturing campus in Worcester has now pulled out of the project.

Two Worcester businesses this month received federal small business loans in order to invest in real estate, according to announcements from the Worcester Business Development Corp. and U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA).

A Main Street building in Worcester where a rear wall partially collapsed in May has gotten city approval for further repair work.