Real Estate

The City of Worcester has moved assertively to ensure it is getting a fair deal with developers, placing demands on businesses without reversing Worcester's development-friendly reputation.

To reach vulnerable populations, healthcare providers find news ways to deliver care where patients are most likely to need treatment.

Less than two weeks into retirement, the former leader of Seven Hills signed on for a new challenge: Helping business students consider the larger societal good.

Rise and Grind Cafe and Smoothie Bar at 805 Main St. in Fitchburg received two loans of $32,500 from the City of Fitchburg and $32,000 from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. in Fitchburg.

The Grant Street Complex, a 26-unit apartment property in Framingham, has sold for $6.4 million to a company in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston.

The Worcester City Council voted 10-1 to adopt a specialized stretch energy code, making requirements more stringent than existing stretch codes prescribed by the State for 300 communities statewide.

Webster developer Galaxy Life Sciences expects to expand a 90,000-square-foot biomanufacturing facility under construction at The Reactory biomanufacturing campus in Worcester to 246,000 square feet, pending approval from the City of Worcester.

A retail property at 395 Park Ave. in Worcester sold for $1.2 million to the owners of a neighboring restaurant property.

Three Central Massachusetts manufacturing firms were among 11 companies to split $2.2 million in grants from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Accelerate Program, administered by the Center for Advanced Manufacturing at MassTech Collaborative.

The Healey administration is working on an economic development bill to file in the new year and "hit the ground running in 2024," Economic Development Secretary Yvonne Hao said Wednesday, forecasting a focus in the legislation on technology related to climate change.