Real Estate

A hotel property at 50 Oriol Drive in Worcester, which will be turned into a 90-unit permanent supportive housing development, was sold for $10.8 million.

Efforts to subject the Legislature to outside scrutiny, reform the role of standardized MCAS tests, allow cities and towns to regulate rent levels, and reshape rights and benefits for on-demand drivers took steps Wednesday toward potentially being decided by voters in 2024.

A pandemic-era program that paused roughly 10,000 eviction cases while tenants sought financial aid could return as a permanent tool if Gov. Maura Healey joins lawmakers in support.

Affiliates of Florida-based real-estate investment firm Westbrook Partners purchased a portfolio of industrial properties from Boston real estate firm Marcus Partners for $167 million, including four Central Massachusetts properties in Sutton and Franklin.

Lebanon Hill Housing, a 116-unit housing development for the elderly in Southbridge was sold to a Holden corporation for $7.1 million.

The former Baldwinville Elementary School in Templeton will be the site of a 54-unit mixed-income apartment community, the first multifamily project permitted in the town in 25 years.

Worcester Community Action Council is using $250,000 in funding to launch a pilot program providing basic income to 52 participating households.

People who are in favor of rent control would waver in their support of the policy shift depending on how different phrases appear in a potential ballot question, according to a poll released Thursday that focused on a range of issues confronting Beacon Hill lawmakers, including gun reform, standardizing testing and raising the minimum wage.

The Senate passed a $513 million spending bill on Wednesday afternoon, adding to the growing pile of legislation caught in the crossfire of a seemingly widening divide between Democratic legislative leaders.

The Central Massachusetts Agency on Aging is running back-to-school programming starting in August, an initiative part of the Worcester organization's new Grandparents Raising Grandkids Resource Center.