Real Estate

The site of a Lowe’s in Framingham near the Shoppers World shopping center has been sold for $32.6 million to a Boston-based real estate firm.

Reilly is replacing Jim Finn, who announced his retirement in August after six years at the helm.

Despite major public investments in recent years, the report by the MassINC Policy Center and the Worcester Regional Research Bureau found that students in Boston and "gateway cities" are more likely than their suburban counterparts to "learn in buildings that are deteriorating, lacking in basic features, and often cramped and overcrowded."

Now looking at an extended period of time before the restaurant can reopen, the company behind Vivienne is trying to retain its staff through a series of fundraising events.

After a private equity firm became its majority owner in February, Worcester-based electrical contractor and energy solutions company Commonwealth Electrical Technologies has acquired NuWave Energy Solutions in Norwell.

Renew Worcester, a 92-unit apartment building in Worcester, has been sold for $25.73 million to The Micozzi Cos., a Boston-based firm with a growing presence in Central Massachusetts.

Plumley Village, a 430-unit affordable housing community in Worcester, has been sold for $100 million.

A two-story medical and professional office building on Worcester’s Belmont Street near the campus of UMass Chan Medical School has sold for $2.29 million.

Saint-Gobain is continuing to expand its Northborough industrial research campus, having received a $195,000 tax credit from the state.

Crews were working Thursday morning to move a 13,000-pound, three-tesla GE 3T SIGNATM Hero MRI into the Shields MRI at UMass Memorial building at 214 Shrewsbury St.