Greater Worcester

An 82,000-square-foot parcel in Auburn has sold for $725,000 and will be used by BJ's Wholesale Club to build a gas station near its Route 20 store, according to NAI Glickman Kovago & Jacobs of Worcester.

The chief information officer at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Deborah Scott, was named to Computerworld's 2016 Premier 100 Technology Leaders list.

Eighty percent of young professionals in the Greater Boston area rank access to public transit as "very important" in their calculation of choosing where to live, according to poll results that will be formally released later Monday.

GLEN MARTIN was promoted at Continental Woodcraft, a millwork subsidiary of BlueHive Strategic Environments of Worcester, to vice president. He was previously manufacturing manager for the company. Martin, who joined BlueHive in 2012, formerly worked for Iaccarino and Son Inc.

Standing in front of a crowd of cheerful onlookers on Oct. 26 at the announcements of a $36-million renovation to two downtown Worcester office towers and of 500 UMass Memorial Health Care workers relocating downtown, Lt. Gov. Karen Polito was all too happy to tout all that had been done to improve the city.

Founded 15 years ago by then Clark University doctoral student Andrew Schiller, Worcester big data firm Location, Inc. has become an industry authority in neighborhood search technology for 12 million people annually. It's also a leader in big data analytics for the insurance, real estate, retail and site selection industries.

Operating on three guiding principles – “Do the Right Thing,” “People Come First” and “Make a Difference” – Marlborough-based Digital Federal Credit Union takes great pride in treating its employees with the same care and attention it shows its customers.

When Chip Norton set out to purchase two office towers in downtown Worcester, he knew modernizing the buildings and the adjoining property that includes a portion of a former mall would be key to the equation.

Holiday Inn Boxborough, Middlesex Savings Bank and Emerson Hospital were main sponsors of the Middlesex West Chamber of Commerce Dash and Bash 5K, to benefit the chamber scholarship fund.

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