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The vacant General Screw Machine Products on Worcester's Shrewsbury Street would be renovated and expanded to commercial and residential use under a proposal going before the Planning Board on Wednesday night.

A distribution center on Jytek Drive in Leominster, home to the company Electro Wire, has sold for just under $7.5 million.

Drugmaker Genzyme has sold two Framingham office buildings for about $20.5 million. The company has had operations in Framingham for decades and has said it's committed to keeping a presence in the city despite plans to consolidate other area operations in a new Cambridge building.

Some state lawmakers are hoping to begin a conversation about how that power generated at sea should be brought onto shore and into homes.

The Massachusetts unemployment rate ticked up one-tenth of a percentage point in May to 3.0%, the state said Friday.

Maugel Architects, an architectural and interior design firm in Harvard, acquired DeStefano Architects in Portsmouth, N.H.

Worcester is receiving $373,000 in federal loans to clean contaminated sites including the planned Polar Park and a related mixed-use development.

A Westborough nonprofit working to improve cancer survival rates raised nearly $1.5 million at its annual event this year, a fundraiser featuring the comedian Jay Leno.

A former Reliant Medical Group office on Route 30 in Westborough has sold for $1.7 million.

Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives in June held an event reflecting on nearly four decades of growth in the Central Massachusetts life and health sciences cluster, particularly around MBI’s home in Worcester.