Blackstone Valley

Central Massachusetts is brimming with young talent, as scores of people have achieved much in a relatively short period of time, while scores more have the potential to do great things.

Led by Worcester manufacturing tech firm Solvus Global, 19 Central Massachusetts firms made the 2022 Inc. 5000, a national list of the fastest growing companies from the New York City magazine.

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.

Two corporations, both registered to Barry Rynearson, the CFO of Pennsylvania’s Heller Capital Group, purchased two adjacent lots, totaling just over 2 acres, at 44 and 56 Industrial Drive in Uxbridge for $7.6 million.

A 5,200 square foot industrial building at 7 Saint Mark Street in Auburn, sold to Turnpike Developments LLC of Sutton by Johnson Pleasant Realty LLC of Auburn for $690,000.

Communities in Worcester County and neighboring MetroWest communities received $3.4 million in grants from the Massachusetts Shared Streets and Spaces Grant Program for improvements benefitting pedestrians, cyclists, and riders of public transportation.

An entity registered to executives of CRG, a division of Chicago real estate giant Clayco, Inc. has purchased more than 63 acres of land in Douglas and Uxbridge for $17.6 million for a proposed warehouse facility of over 1 million square feet.

The former Old Holbrook Place Campground in Sutton sold on Thursday for $1.5 million, to be used for future residential development.

The median price in June of a single-family home in Massachusetts reached $610,000, while that figure for homes in Worcester County rose 9.4% year over year to $432,050.

A proposed Grafton cannabis dispensary has taken another step toward opening to the public, requiring that employees of the location be licensed through a dispensary associate certificate.