Real Estate

RK Centers has purchased a Stop & Shop-anchored Framingham plaza for $17.4 million, three months after it was traded in March for $15.7 million.

RE/MAX Diverse, based on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester, acquired RE/MAX Patriot Realty and will take over its 55 Mead St. office in Leominster.

A portion of a commercial lot at 1059 Grafton St. in Worcester was sold for $775,000 to a company planning to build a car wash at the property.

The Whitford Building and the Edwards Block at 295 and 344 Main St. in Southbridge sold for $5.3 million to a group of Orlando investors on May 31.

While the business community throughout Massachusetts have begun to feel pessimistic about the state’s economic outlook for the first time in three years, company leaders in Central Mass. remain cautiously optimistic, according to the monthly index from the Associated Industries of Massachusetts.

The 134,000-square-foot, multi-level Wegmans supermarket at the Natick Mall will close later this summer.

Former Worcester City Manager Ed Augustus was sworn in on Thursday morning as the state's first Cabinet-level housing secretary in three decades, saying he is focused on increasing housing production, but staying mum on specific policies that housing advocates say are necessary.

Developer and restauranteur Weidong “Wilson” Wang has proposed a new residential and commercial development on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester, at the site of a three-decker apartment building and parking lot.

Five life science companies with significant operations in Central Mass. were among the 43 firms across Massachusetts chosen to split $24.4 million in tax incentive awards.

The Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce, an affiliate of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, named 12 local business leaders to its first board of directors.