Hospitality

Two new Canal District restaurants are seeking to occupy empty spaces on Water Street in Worcester.

Friendly's is closing its Holden and Framingham restaurants among 23 corporate-owned locations across the Northeast, leaving seven stores in Central Massachusetts.

The DoubleTree hotel in Milford has sold for nearly $21 million to a Lexington hospitality company.

Wyman-Gordon is planning two new buildings totaling 21,600 square feet to consolidate operations to make way for the planned Worcester Red Sox ballpark and related development.

Health food restaurant Protein House, occupying a the space below the 145 Front St. apartments in Worcester, is slated to open next week.

Wyman-Gordon and Boston developer Madison Downtown Holdings have closed on a $6.1-million sale of land needed to help develop the $101-million ballpark for the Worcester Red Sox.

Charlton craft beer maker Tree House Brewing Co. was one of the country's fastest-growing breweries last year, according to a new report from a national beer group.

The first shops are now open, but the medical community is as unsettled as ever on marijuana's benefits and harms, and few know what to expect for health effects in Massachusetts.

The former owner of Escape Games Worcester is planning to open an arcade bar inside the former Mass Barbell gym location on Grafton Street in Worcester.

The Worcester Redevelopment Authority is moving forward with lease negotiations for the owner of the former Country Music Ranch & Saloon to operate a restaurant and nightclub in Union Station.