Framingham

Staples plans to close up to 225 stores in North America by the end of 2015, the Framingham-based office supply retailer announced Thursday.

Framingham-based Cumberland Farms said it has agreed to sell 27 stores in the mid-Atlantic region to Petroleum Marketing Group (PMG) of Woodbridge, Va.

The building housing a BJ's Wholesale Club store in Framingham has been sold for $26.5 million.

rEVO Biologics of Framingham will begin late-stage trials of a drug intended to prevent and treat hemophilia A and B bleeding episodes in patients who have developed resistance to other treatments methods.

Framingham-based Parsons Commercial Group Inc. said it brokered two new leases at 40 Nagog Park in Acton.The...

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced two grants to support life sciences capital projects at area schools, with the larger sum, $3 million, awarded to Framingham State University (FSU) for major lab renovation projects.

Framingham-based TJX Cos. saw net income for fiscal 2014 increase 15 percent from the prior year, though it declined in the fourth quarter, yielding earnings of 81 cents per share, compared with 82 cents a year ago.

Four life science companies in Central Massachusetts received a combined $1.54 million in tax incentives to create 87 jobs in 2014, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced Wednesday.

Framingham-based Gulf Electricity announced Wednesday it will expand its consumer and small business electric service to the five boroughs of New York City and Westchester County.

Three Westborough apartment buildings, known collectively as the Fountainhead Apartments, were sold for $83.75 million, according to records held by the Worcester County Registry of Deeds.