Hospitality

The Mercantile restaurant saw plenty of glitz and glamor as it debuted its second-floor rooftop deck and bar on Thursday, in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the downtown restaurant’s expansion. 

When reached for comment Wednesday, BirchTree co-owners and spouses Avra Hoffman and Robert Fecteau implied they are selling the business, but they wouldn't confirm officially until after the Worcester License Commission hearing.

Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston has changed its name to be more reflective of its widening audience, the organization announced on its website Wednesday.

The honors include Family Owned Business of the Year, Minority Owned Business of the Year, Women Owned Business of the Year, Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and Small Manufacturer of the Year.

Wide-ranging marijuana legislation that targets some of the most persistent issues that activists, regulators, businesses and municipalities have said are holding Massachusetts back from realizing the full potential of the 2016 legalization law cleared the Senate unanimously Thursday afternoon.

Greatest Hits Cannabis Co., a retail dispensary meshing cannabis and music, will open its flagship location at a 158-year-old mill in Dudley on Tuesday.

Workers at the Starbucks on East Central Street in Worcester announced their intent to unionize in a letter to Howard Schultz, interim president and CEO of the Seattle-based coffee shop chain.

A 73-room hotel in Milford will go up for auction in May, according to a post from Holbrook-based auctioneer Paul E. Saperstein Co.

The Senate is planning next week to debate legislation targeting persistent issues with host community agreements and social equity in the growing legal cannabis industry in Massachusetts.

A nearly seven-acre industrial site in Uxbridge, which is the home of Nature’s Medicines cannabis dispensary, sold for $3.45 million to an Arizona-based firm, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.