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The Power 100 edition is an annual report on how power is shared and expended in Central Massachusetts each year, as told through the 100 people who are most effectively wielding their influence, with a special focus on those creating change and bringing new ideas to the forefront.

“We’ve been DOGE-ed,” said Christopher Egan, president of Carruth Capital in Westborough, which owns one of the impacted properties.

A logistics center in Uxbridge has sold for $120 million to Boston private equity real estate firm Rockpoint, making it the largest property transaction in the past five years in Central Massachusetts.

Vaillancourt Folk Art is a tourist destination known for its handcrafted Christmas collectibles, but before becoming a well-recognized brand, the company had much humbler beginnings starting off in the Vaillancourt family basement.

UN1F1ED2 Global Packaging Group has sold its 124,400-square foot facility for $11.2 million.

Sutton-based Concierge Physical Therapy will open a new, larger facility down the road from its previous location, after securing a U.S. Small Business Administration loan from the Worcester Business Development Corporation and Auburn-based bank Webster Five.

The Kraft Group company's non-sports holdings include Worcester-based packaging manufacturer Rand-Whitney and UN1F1ED2 Global Packaging Group in Sutton. 

Over the last 10 years, the reporting prowess of the Central Massachusetts paper of record has been reduced 75%, as small players try to fill the holes left behind.

Once a production desert, Central Massachusetts has seen a large increase in Hollywood-related activity in the past 15 years. Then, the strikes came.

A 28-acre plot of land in Grafton containing a solar farm has been sold to a corporation linked to a company describing itself as the largest owner and operator of on-site commercial solar operations in the country.