Greater Worcester

The Worcester Art Museum is creating three new positions but will lay off six employees in a restructuring, as the 115-year-old nonprofit aims to broaden its audience and boost attendance.

The office markets in Worcester and the Interstate 495 area made gains in the fourth quarter of 2012, although the vacancy rate ranged between 20 and 25 percent, according to a report released today.

Nypro Inc. of Clinton is being sold to a Florida-based provider of manufactured precision plastics products for an estimated $665 million, according to a statement from that company.

Downtown Worcester has been full of development activity for the past few years, as the city focuses on revitalizing the area and moving it away from only being a bustling place during office hours.

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Columbia Tech, a subsidiary of Coghlin Cos. Inc., of Worcester, has expanded with a new facility in Westborough that adds 68,000 square feet of warehouse, distribution, manufacturing and office space, the company announced.

The owner of a Central Massachusetts limousine service has bought the Leitrim Pub on Park Avenue, according to a firm that helped broker the sale for owners Michael Coonan and Kevin Lenihan.

On what was once a wind-swept empty field, University of Massachusetts officials and a host of political dignitaries introduced the new $400 million Albert Sherman Center to a gathering of about 500 Wednesday afternoon inside the newest building on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.

Quinsigamond Community College's board of trustees unanimously voted to expand to downtown Worcester at its Wednesday meeting. The school will lease 72,409 square feet of office, lab and classroom space in the former Telegram & Gazette building at 20 Franklin St.