Manufacturing

Retail giant Amazon announced the opening of a new, 350,000 square foot Amazon Robotics manufacturing facility in Westborough on Thursday.

The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Worcester Business Development Corporation released on Wednesday a new economic development and recruitment video for the City of Worcester.

NorthBridge Partners, LLC, a real estate investment company based in Wakefield, has purchased $16.2 million in properties in Shrewsbury, Sterling, and Boylston over the last few weeks.

Massachusetts State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg announced on Tuesday five appointments to the Cannabis Advisory Board, a 25-person group which studies and makes recommendations to the state regulatory body Cannabis Control Commission.

Solvus Global, a technology solutions company founded by two PhD graduates from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has received a $1.6 million grant from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to develop a new manufacturing center, according to a Friday announcement. 

Webster Five Cents Savings Bank sold its former Auburn offices at 10 A St. for $2 million in a sale closed on Sept. 13, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

A Framingham real estate company purchased a 102,000-square-foot, fully leased industrial warehouse in Leominster for $5.9 million, according to the Worcester North District Registry of Deeds.

Adult-use cannabis retail sales in Massachusetts surpassed $1 billion for the year by the start of business Thursday, according to updated data from the state Cannabis Control Commission.

BioLife Plasma Services, part of the Japanese biopharmaceutical company Takeda, will open its first Massachusetts plasma center in Worcester on Saturday, with plans to open an additional facility in Medford in the spring, the company announced on Wednesday.

BJ’s Wholesale Club, a membership-based warehouse retailer based in Westborough, will close on Thanksgiving this year, reopening at 7 a.m. on Black Friday, the company announced Tuesday.