Real Estate

Shop owner Sheri Putnam, together with her husband Bob Putnam and Design Coordinator Susan Krysinski, maintain an ever-rotating stock of farmhouse-styled merchandise that all but bursts off the shelves.

People are on the move at UMass Memorial Medical Group, Fidelity Bank, and Clark University.

When the first recreational cannabis dispensaries in Massachusetts opened in November 2018, their parking lots assumed a festive air as people lined up, sometimes for hours, to get the newly legal product. Nearly five years later, legal cannabis has become an unremarkable part of the state economy.

Smaller cannabis companies are white labeling and collaborating as they try to survive a fierce pricing competition against large corporations in an increasingly saturated market.

Multifamily residential developers have been proposing thousands of apartments throughout Central Massachusetts, but communities are resisting the push for more housing to protect their resources and what residents and officials see as their town’s character.

Family-owned Koopman Lumber has opened its 12th location in Dennis, its first on Cape Cod.

Southborough-based Block Engineering named photonics veteran Steven Buckley as its new president.

Bisousweet Confections will renovate and purchase equipment for its new 20,000-square-foot facility in Leominster with a $1.25 million loan from MassDevelopment.

While Beacon Hill searches for solutions to the serious housing shortage that fuels affordability concerns in Massachusetts, a real estate industry organization wants to see the Community Preservation Act program retrofitted to put a greater emphasis on housing production.

As was the case for the first two years of debt payments, the saving grace for the current fiscal year 2023 and the next fiscal year 2024 is a $3-million property sale from 2021.