Real Estate

The City of Gardner received $1.2 million in federal funding to upgrade accessibility features and parking in its downtown area. 

Advocates, a Framingham-based human services nonprofit, will open an autism training center for businesses and a social space for children and families impacted by autism.

A Watertown-based real estate firm has purchased 11 Southbridge-based apartment buildings for a combined $7.95 million. 

Four permits have been issued for the site in 2024, according to City of Worcester records.

Following a May announcement the aerospace manufacturing company is moving its headquarters to Northeast Cutoff in Worcester, The David Clark Co. has purchased the site.

The historic building in the heart of the town’s downtown area has held many events over its 152-year history.

Employees at Glickman Kovago & Jacobs, Fidelity Bank, and Walker Development & Construction Management are on the move.

Cautious optimism. These two words are perhaps the most succinct way to summarize how some of the region’s economists and business figures feel about the state of the Central Massachusetts economy.

Compared to WBJ’s year-end Economic Forecast survey published in December, Central Massachusetts business leaders aren’t quite as optimistic as they were six months ago.

MassHousing and the Massachusetts Housing Investment Corp have teamed up to launch what they say is the largest publicly led financing program of its kind in the country.