Greater Worcester

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has beat a slew of Boston area schools in a new study examining starting salary for recent graduates in which it came in second in Massachusetts.

Three Central Massachusetts wealth advisors have made Forbes magazine's list of the top 200 wealth managers in the country.

Greenwood Industries has acquired an East Hartford, Conn. roofing company in a move that grows the Worcester company's workforce by 71 employees while expanding its Connecticut presence.

In a push to spur redevelopment of the Worcester Auditorium, the city and Preservation Worcester will open the moth-balled building's doors this August to tours.

Northeast senior living provider Wingate Healthcare has named a new COO and CFO with connections to Framingham and Sudbury.

While foreclosures overall in Massachusetts hit their 28th month of increases in June, Middlesex County reserved that trend and posted a year-over-year decline of 5.1 percent.

The Worcester economy has bounced back to a sluggish end to 2015 with a second strong quarter, with the area adding jobs and the unemployment rate dropping to 4.5 percent, according to the Worcester Economic Index (WEI).

Worcester custom lighting manufacturer Access Fixtures on July 19 announced the debut of its new product designed specifically for tennis courts.

Worcester-based Primetals Technologies announced last week that it shipped a car part manufacturing machine to a Chinese steel producer, in the first modernization of that Asian facility's operations in nearly 20 years.

Worcester semiconductor maker Allegro MicroSystems on July 26 released a new automotive sensor designed to aid power steering.