Real Estate

The Worcester Railers HC signed a five-year lease, with an option for five additional years, with the DCU Center in Worcester to continue playing hockey at the venue.

Activists want Healey and the Legislature to double public housing authority subsidies to $184 million next year, one of several requests they rolled out as the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization kicked off a new housing justice campaign aiming to blunt the sharp edges of a statewide housing crisis and prevent people from being pushed out of their communities or into homelessness.

An entity registered to a Long Island real estate investor purchased a Stop & Shop-anchored real estate plaza for $22 million, less than two years after it was sold for $17.2 million.

Municipalities that don't comply with the state law requiring that denser, multi-family housing be allowed near transit stations could be slapped with lawsuits in addition to losing access to key sources of state funding, Attorney General Andrea Campbell warned Wednesday.

An affiliate of California investment firm, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., purchased a 35-acre plot of land at 29 Research Drive in Westborough, two months after buying the neighboring former BJ’s Wholesale Club headquarters.

Atlas Event Group is moving from its two current Shrewsbury locations to a larger combined space at 910 Boston Turnpike in Shrewsbury.

A long-anticipated conservation and residential development project at the Stow Acres Country Club is approaching its final stages as a 189-unit mixed-income housing development project awaits approval by the Town of Stow.

Unemployment rates across Central Massachusetts increased at the start of this year, with January unemployment higher in all three of the region’s metropolitan areas tracked by the state.

Washington D.C.-based developer The Menkiti Group, which has invested heavily in downtown Worcester, has named David Roodberg as president of the firm.

Natick software developer MathWorks donated $2.5 million to build a new regional YMCA in Ashland.