Auburn

Atlanta-based recruiting and staffing enterprise Spherion Staffing and Recruiting has opened it newest location at 48 Sword Street in Auburn, owned by franchisee Brian Palaia, the former Dunstable city manager Brian Palaia. 

In the first month since the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce partnered with Discover Clinton to establish the Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce, the new organization has added seven members, with more inquiries.

Lundgren Equity Partners, LLC of Auburn purchased the 57,000-square-foot former location of Consolidated Fabrications in Auburn for $3.75 million.

The property housing the Lundgren Honda dealership at 145-163 Washington St. in Auburn has sold for $18.5 million to Legacy Automotive Capital of Exton, Pa., a company specializing in sale-leaseback and buy/sell capital transactions for the automotive retail industry.

Webster Plaza, a two-building, 70,600-square-foot retail strip in Webster, sold for $5.3 million, according to a Thursday press release from NAI Glickman Kovago & Jacobs, the Worcester real estate agency which brokered the sale.

Overall, more than 20,000 PPP loans for a total of $1.8 billion were given out to businesses across Worcester County, with more than 4,800 and $450 million of those loans going to businesses within the city of Worcester, according to data from the SBA.

Finding stable housing has always been a challenge for low-income earners, but the problem has ballooned in places like Worcester where the average rent is growing about 10 percentage points faster than the average income.

Auburn-based solar company Solar Wolf Energy announced abruptly in a Wednesday Facebook post it will close its operations, leaving more than 50 Yarmouth residents without fully installed solar panel systems, despite having paid.

A 55-unit, mixed-income senior housing complex at the former Mary D. Stone Elementary School in Auburn officially opened on Thursday.

Hometown Financial Group, Inc., the holding company for bankHometown in Oxford, plans to acquire Randolph Bancorp, Inc. the Quincy-based holding company of Envision Bank, for $146.5 million.