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Worcester Business Journal has moved its Family Business of the Year award to its annual Business Leaders of the Year award ceremony and is soliciting nominations now.

As it has done for the last seven years, the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce is calling for the City Council to adopt a tax rate to help reduce the gap between commercial and residential tax payments.

A 65,000-square-foot shopping plaza at the former Worcester Regional Transit Authority site on Grove Street has been approved after the developer changed the design to better fit in the neighborhood.

The MetroWest Daily News and other publications in a large, mostly unused 90,000-square-foot building in Framingham will relocate to an office on Speen Street in early December.

San Francisco-based delivery service Instacart and Springfield grocery chain Big Y have expanded their partnership to the Worcester and Boston areas.

Beginning on Dec. 9, online news outlet Worcester Sun will publish a weekly print edition.

The American Antiquarian Society, the Boys & Girls Club, Quality Beverage and Bethany Hill Place were among those making appointments and promotions.

Auburn-based Galaxy Development on Wednesday unveiled a more pedestrian- and city-oriented design for a plaza on at the former WRTA site on Grove Street.

Worcester is offering online commerce giant Amazon 98 acres off of Rte. 20 and up to $500 million in real estate tax savings.

The Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation, Inc. board of directors has three new members. KEITH D. BOISSONEAU...