Franklin

With Massachusetts seemingly ready to roll the dice, Plainville and the Interstate 495 south area are suddenly poised to become the state's de facto capital for Las Vegas-style gambling. When Penn National's Plainridge Park opens next spring, it will enjoy a gambling monopoly in Massachusetts that could last — at least in the eastern half of the state — for two or three years, local officials and gambling industry experts say.

Franklin is as ready as it can possibly be for biotechnology companies, according to a statewide industry group.

A Franklin laboratory that provides analytic testing and consulting services for clients in several industries will be moving operations to Milford this month after it signed a lease for space in a building once occupied by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Precision Dermatology Inc. is moving its headquarters from Cumberland, R.I., to Franklin.

CTI Towers Inc. of Franklin purchased four wireless communication towers in Texas and created a new executive position to drive further growth, the company announced Wednesday.

A report released by the Sierra Club on Monday said a proposal to replace the commonwealth's existing bottle redemption law with a one-cent fee would saddle municipalities with extra costs and result in thousands of lost jobs.

Hopkinton-based EMC and aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology firm Lockheed Martin will open a cybersecurity center in Israel in which the two firms will engage in technology projects in the southern part of the country. The center will be located in a technology park in Be'er-Sheva, and the projects will take place with the help of Israeli companies, government agencies and academic institutions in the region to explore and promote collaborative research and development projects in cloud computing, data analytics and related cybertechnologies, according to a statement from EMC.

Eight public high schools in Central Massachusetts received a combined $685,000 to purchase life sciences training equipment and supplies, the Patrick administration and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced today.

A trade show exhibition company recently expanded its Franklin Industrial Park lease, according to the broker.

An evangelical Christian church renewed its lease Tuesday for nearly 30,000 square feet of space in a Franklin warehouse building.