Greater Worcester

Large for-profit life sciences companies have called Central Mass. their home for decades. Now, they play an important role in bringing talent, investment, and research to the region.

Researchers across Central Mass. are leading development of cutting-edge ideas and therapies to provide the next generation of solutions to present and future problems.

Space and cost issues have begun to creep into Cambridge and Boston, forcing companies, especially startups, to look outside of the Route 128 belt and increasingly more towards Central Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council rates the state’s various communities as BioReady based on their ability to host biotechnology facilities.

Developers and brokers are using multiple strategies to bring life sciences companies out past Route 128 in Massachusetts.

Fourteen projects across Central Massachusetts have received more than $152 million in federal and state low-interest-rate loans...

The Leicester Garden Apartments at 1671 Main St. in Leicester sold on Wednesday for $4 million, according to the Worcester District Registry of Deeds.

The University of Massachusetts has agreed to increase tuition, room and board next academic year, as leaders on Beacon Hill disagree over creating a "tuition lock" system and how much to invest in public higher education.

The rundown Denholm Building on Main Street in Worcester is slated to become either a $113-million, mixed-use housing development with an affordable component, or a $65-million mixed-use luxury apartment complex.

The former Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles lot at 611 Main St. in Worcester is under agreement for sale by Washington D.C. developer The Menkiti Group for $2.5 million.