Hopkinton

You can define success in myriad ways: holding your ground; uncompromising ambition; the relentless pursuit of excellence; steady as she goes; staying a step ahead. The one thing shared in common by the most-heralded and well-run companies Worcester Business Journal has chronicled over 35 years is a bit of all these things.

Open Play Pickleball and Padel Club in Hopkinton is one step closer to opening.

The company was founded in 2014 and is expanding to a new Southborough headquarters.

Worcester-based Pleasant Street Dental and its owner were indicted in June for their involvement in an alleged MassHealth scheme to defraud the state Medicaid insurance program for more than $2 million.

EchoStor Technologies expanded into Connecticut in 2021. It grew to 12 employees at its Windsor office in 2023 and now has 25 employees at the location, which serves as its headquarters for Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. 

The Elmwood Farms subdivision was originally approved in 1989, but the lots include a part of the subdivision that was never constructed. 

Hopkinton’s Isto Biologics completed a merger with a California biologics company known for innovation in October.

Nearly two decades have passed since WBJ created an awards specifically for healthcare professionals. Today, though, such an honor feels more important than ever.

New York-based Northeast Grocery, Inc., parent company of Price Chopper and Market 32 supermarkets, has named John Persons as the company’s new chief operating officer and Mike Miller as chief administrative officer, both newly-created positions at the company.

While Beacon Hill searches for solutions to the serious housing shortage that fuels affordability concerns in Massachusetts, a real estate industry organization wants to see the Community Preservation Act program retrofitted to put a greater emphasis on housing production.