Real Estate

Framingham-based Parsons Commercial Group Inc. said it brokered two new leases at 40 Nagog Park in Acton.The...

Just one year ago, if you'd asked architect Clay Benjamin Smook if he would have traded a downtown Boston address for an office in the suburbs, the answer would have been 'No.' But on Feb. 12, SMOOK Architecture & Urban Design Inc. opened its new office at 8 Lyman St. in Westborough, a move Smook considers a “rebirth” for his 10-year-old, full-service architecture firm.

As cities and towns across Central Massachusetts push to generate more traffic downtown, they're easing up on rules intended for suburban development.

As snow's piled up around North Central Massachusetts, some residents have found a good reason to be pleased with winter conditions: power outages have been only a minor inconvenience. That's something many local businesses and residents have not taken for granted since the ice storm that hit the region in December 2008.

Worcester's EcoTarium will kick off a year-long innovation incubator with more than 100 participants this weekend.

Canton-based Timberline Construction Corp. has completed the first phase of a $3.2-million renovation of the Family Health Center in Worcester.

The state gaming commission has picked Plainville over Leominster and Raynham for the one slots parlor license mandated in the 2011 gambling expansion law.

Two recent lease transactions have helped bring 28,075-square-foot Westborough office building to nearly full occupancy.

January home sales in Massachusetts reached their highest level since 2007, according to two groups that track real estate transactions regularly.

The day a “For Sale” banner went up outside the former 1790 House on Route 9 eastbound in Westborough was a sad one for many area natives who viewed the historic restaurant as a landmark. But Deborah Penta, owner of Penta Communications in Westborough, saw an opportunity. The entrepreneur had leased a modern office building up the road for years, and while it's made a fine marketing and communications office, the 1790 House was a place Penta felt she could make her own.