Auburn

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Boston-based Safety Insurance Group Inc. announced Thursday its intention to acquire Northeast-MetroWest Insurance Agency, which has offices in Westborough and Auburn.

A 46,000-square-foot industrial building along Route 20 in Auburn, sold in March for $4.8 million, has been leased to Indiana manufacturer OTECH Corp., according to Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates of Worcester, which brokered the lease and the sale.

Maine-based engineering firm Haley Ward Inc. continues to pursue its growth strategy with the acquisition of Lenard Engineering Inc., a multi-discipline engineering and environmental firm headquartered in Glastonbury, Conn., with offices in Auburn, Mass.

Lundgren Equity Partners LLC of Auburn is proposing a 200,000-square-foot, seven-story multifamily high rise at 225 Shrewsbury St. in Worcester.

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.

Vinh Ly, owner of 3B Auto Inc. on Canterbury Street in Worcester, has purchased three lots in Worcester and Auburn for just under $1.2 million.

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.

The former Auburn headquarters of defunct and legally troubled Solar Wolf Energy is available for lease, less than a year and a half after the renewable energy firm moved to the location.