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The number of Worcester County home sales saw a 35% decline year-over-year in November while there was a 30% decline in the number of sales statewide, as Massachusetts prices hit their lowest level of increase in two years.

Boston real estate investment firm The Seyon Group purchased a 275,620 square-foot warehouse in Lancaster for $48 million from Foxborough-based The Kraft Group.

With the Thursday signing by Gov. Charlie Baker of the $3.76-billion Massachusetts economic development bill, more than $1.4 million will filter to five Central Massachusetts projects.

The Massachusetts Growth Capital Corp., a Boston-based quasi-public corporation, awarded $759,687 to Central Massachusetts chambers of commerce, development corporations, and micro-lenders.

Open Sky Community Services has hired Mary Benvenuto of Blackstone as its new executive vice president and CFO, the Worcester-based human services nonprofit announced Monday.

People are on the move at GFA Federal Credit Union, Mirick O’Connell, and more.

The 31,080-square-foot location of a glass factory in Whitinsville sold for $4.2 million on Aug. 1. The manufacturer will remain at the location.

Timothy Doyle, who has led the Research Department for New England Business Media since 2019, has joined the Worcester Business Journal newsroom as a staff writer in charge of the real estate and higher education beats.

Whitinsville-based Koopman Lumber has acquired Boilard Lumber, a family-owned lumber yard based in Indian Orchard, a neighborhood of Springfield, marking its first incursion into Western Massachusetts.

The bank officially turned 150 in 2020, but postponed any planned celebration until this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.