Real Estate

Worcester City Manager Eric Batista proposed to delete the Worcester Ballpark Commission and place Polar Park under the purview of the City’s Department of Public Facilities, according to the Worcester City Council agenda for Tuesday’s meeting.

The Telegram and Gazette, Worcester’s paper of record, will remain at 100 Front St. in a smaller office on the third floor in the high-rise building it has occupied since 2012. Its name, emblazoned atop the building, will be removed.

Children and parents swarmed around the Grand Staircase Thursday to rally for passage of an early education package they said would bolster affordability and access, address pay and benefits for early ed staff, and represent a "new, stable source of funding."

The House came around on the idea of expanding a tax credit program designed to encourage much-needed housing production, just not in the legislative vehicle that Gov. Maura Healey and the Senate originally envisioned.

New Jersey-based Seabra Foods has purchased a former Salvation Army location at 35 Concord St. in Framingham for a new supermarket location, across from the newly-constructed 196-apartment Union House.

A weekly outdoor market will bring handmade and vintage goods, a farmers market, and entertainment to the courtyard at The Glass Tower in Downtown Worcester beginning on July 22.

Keystone Educational Collaborative has purchased Apple Hill Farm and Country Club in Leominster for a new educational facility.

United Group of Companies, a national developer based in Troy, New York, purchased a development site at 757 Salisbury St. in Worcester for its 123-unit senior living project, The Arbella at Bramble Hill.

Atlanta-based developer Wood Partners, which is constructing a high-profile apartment complex in Worcester, completed the purchase of a downtown block in Marlborough for another project – its planned Alta Marlborough mixed-use development.

The Menkiti Group, a Washington D.C.-based developer which has been acquiring and redeveloping several underused properties throughout downtown Worcester, has officially acquired 526 Main St.