Manufacturing

More than 150 employees from the Worcester facility of Illinois pharmaceutical company AbbVie are building a STEM lab for Forest-Grove Middle School in Worcester.

Devens-based Little Leaf Farms has secured $300 million in capital investment to help the hydroponic lettuce company further expand its operations. 

When Mary J. Blige embarks on the first leg of her Good Morning Gorgeous tour in September, she’ll be doing so with the sponsorship of Marlborough-based Hologic, Inc. 

Three businesses in Central Massachusetts have been approved for economic incentive development programs by the state’s Economic Assistance Coordinating Council, and two additional Worcester County towns have been approved for the council’s vacant storefront program.

The owner of Piece by Piece Movers, a moving-and-storage company with offices in Newton and Woburn, purchased a 24,696-square-foot industrial building on 2.78 acres at 62 Hopkinton Road in Westborough.

Lundgren Equity Partners, LLC of Auburn purchased the 57,000-square-foot former location of Consolidated Fabrications in Auburn for $3.75 million.

Central Massachusetts business organizations with recent hires and promotions include Oriol Health Care, GFA Federal Credit Union, and Bay State Savings Bank.

Six years after cannabis legalization, the fledgling industry remains unequal. But two new bills aim to make good on that promise of bringing equity.

As the chairman and CEO of Southbridge’s first cannabis dispensary, Bob Patton has had a uniquely powerful impact on the town, but it was not easily earned.

WBJ spoke to both Geoff Diehl and Chris Doughty separately after the convention to ask about economic issues in Central Massachusetts and the commonwealth as a whole.