Southbridge

Heywood Healthcare, one of the last independent community healthcare systems in Central Massachusetts, has agreed in principle to join the UMass Memorial Health system, seeking to become part of the network with facilities in Worcester, Marlborough, Leominster, Clinton and Southbridge.

Two businesspeople, who previously owned an apartment complex in Southbridge, bought a 13-acre commercial retail plaza in that town for $12.6 million on Wednesday.

Spectrum Internet, a communications technology provider affiliated with Charter Communications, Inc., has doubled the starting download speed of its internet service from 100 to 200 Mbps throughout its Central Mass. locations, according to a Tuesday press release.

Among the hires and promotions in this edition of Movers & Shakers are those at Fletcher Tilton, Open Sky Community Services, AXIOM Learning Solutions, and AAFCPAs.

Planet Fitness, the exercise center franchise headquartered in New Hampshire, has opened its location in Worcester’s Lincoln Plaza at 535 Lincoln St.

People are on the move at JNP Coffee, Ladybugz Interactive Agency, Harrington Physician Services, and more.

Charles “Chip” Norton, director of Franklin Realty Advisors in Wellesley, has breathed new life into once boarded up buildings by developing them into Southbridge Innovation Center.

The Southbridge Innovation Center, a mixed-use development located in Southbridge, will be the official flagship location for the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Center (MPTC).

Athena Health Care Systems, a Connecticut-based healthcare management company, has sold the properties housing four of its six facilities in Central Massachusetts for a total of more than $40 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

The dispensary already served adult-use customers.