Hospitality

Rocco’s Doughnut Co. will open a Worcester location on Wednesday, owner Joseph Astrella confirmed Thursday afternoon, marking the shop’s third location.

The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission on Tuesday renewed its order allowing telehealth consultations for medical cannabis patients, extending the policy begun at the start of the COVID pandemic.

Central Massachusetts communities on the list include Worcester, Southbridge, Spencer, and Fitchburg.

Massachusetts saw approximately $1.33 billion in adult-use cannabis sales in 2021, more than double the amount recorded for the three-year total in 2018, 2019, and 2020, according to public data from the state Cannabis Control Commission.

Two Worcester storefronts with apartments, including a bar now known as Beths’ on Grafton Hill, have been sold for just over $1 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

The Waltham-based coffee shop franchise will open its second Worcester location on Grove Street on Feb. 15, according to franchisee Neelu Moheghegh.

A closed Worcester brewery and taproom has applied for restaurant, liquor, and entertainment licenses at a new location on Cambridge Street.

The owner of the Vietnamese restaurant in Shrewsbury has purchased a Shrewsbury Street property with his sisters, where they are hoping to find more space and cost savings.

With the main development delayed yet again, the secondary one cut in half, and the third development proposal only committed to a small phase, the City might have to expand the tax district again to pay for its stadium debt.

The chairman of the Cannabis Control Commission raised concerns Thursday with what he said are "predatory financing deals" being offered to entrepreneurs and businesses from communities disproportionately harmed by the decades of marijuana prohibition and renewed the agency's call for the Legislature to make an alternate funding source available.