Framingham

The Worcester area’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.2% in October from 3.3% in September, while the Leominster-Gardner area also dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 3.5% over the month.

Workhuman, a human resources software company based in Framingham and Dublin, Ireland, hired Zoe Peterson-Ward as its new chief customer officer, a newly-created position.

Eagle Rock Properties of Plainview, New York purchased a 72-unit apartment building at 640 Worcester Road in Framingham for $24 million on Friday.

Ameresco, a Framingham-based clean-energy firm, has acquired a five-megawatt wind farm in west County Cork, Ireland.

Framingham retail parent TJX Cos., Inc. will promote John Klinger, its current executive vice president and corporate controller, to EVP and CFO on Jan. 29, replacing Scott Goldenberg who has been CFO since 2012.

Newton hospitality investment firm JNR Management Inc. purchased the 125-room Residence Inn Boston Framingham from Philadelphia-based APEX Capital Investments Corp.

Definitive Healthcare Corp., a publicly-traded company based in Framingham, specializing in market intelligence, named Jon Maack to be the company’s new president.

Tufts Medicine plans to take over cancer services in early 2023 at the MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, which is owned by the parent company of Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester. 

Voting for the WBJ’s 2023 Best of Business awards, which seeks to highlight institutions throughout Central Massachusetts based on reader votes, will close this coming Monday, Nov. 14.

A biomanufacturing facility at 92 Crowley Drive in Marlborough was sold by San Diego biotech National Resilience, Inc. to Canadian real estate giant Oxford Properties Group of Toronto on Thursday.