Hospitality

The 202-room Courtyard by Marriott Boston Marlborough has been sold for $15.3 million.

Regulators at the Mass. Gaming Commission can shift from hypotheticals to actual applications now that they have more than a dozen requests for sports betting licenses in hand, and the public scrubbing of those applications looks poised to kick off once the calendar flips to December.

Trivia question: What was the formal name of The El?

The Massachusetts Restaurant Association wants to give restaurants and other small businesses the opportunity to push some of the credit card costs for restaurants onto consumers.

When Polar Park was first announced in August 2018, Worcester's pay-for-itself plan for it was centered around six proposed buildings from Boston developer Madison Properties. But that development has since significantly shrunk in size and been delayed.

By purchasing well-established marijuana stores, Sean "Diddy" Combs is buying into already profitable establishments with a proven track record. His investment creates the first minority-owned, vertically-integrated multi-state cannabis operator in America.

A Shrewsbury Street restaurant, family-owned since 2009, has a new owner.

Chef Joshua Letendre is serving up breakfast and lunch at his new diner, Josh’s Place at the Southbridge Municipal Airport.

Worcester will soon have more barbecue.

Workers at seven Starbucks locations in Massachusetts went on strike Thursday, including the store on West Broadway in Gardner, as part of a nationwide strike by unionized workers at more than 100 Starbucks locations.