Real Estate

The Town of Northbridge purchased the 96.7-acre Castle Hill Farm property in that town on Friday for $1.45 million, according to the Worcester District Registry of Deeds.

Leaders from five cities joined Lt. Gov Kim Driscoll Monday to sign a compact committing themselves to increasing the number of minority-owned and women-owned firms in private real estate development.

A 10,750-square-foot industrial property was sold on Wednesday for $2 million to a Concord company.

The more than 30-acre Twin City Shopping Center off of Route 2 on the Fitchburg-Leominster border has been sold to a Boston investment firm for $24 million.

The business confidence index ticked lower for the second month in a row among businesses in Central Massachusetts, falling 1.4 points to a score of 50.3, nearing pessimistic territory on the region’s economy.

Middleborough-based Christmas Tree Shops may be preparing to declare chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal.

The Herb Chambers Cos. has opened a Lincoln dealership at the former location of Herb Chambers Nissan at 75 Otis St. in Westborough.

MassDevelopment has loaned $2.75 million to Boston developer Cougar Capital Management to convert an abandoned mill building in Leominster into 17 market-rate apartments.

The National Science Foundation awarded Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner a $350,000 grant to train electric vehicle technicians.

The new owner of the former Table Talk Pies building at 153 Green St. has proposed to the Worcester Planning Board to increase the number of apartments to be built at the site from 15 to 58.