Maynard

A new Market Basket location will open at Maynard Crossing on Friday, the grocery store chain announced on social media on Sunday.

Kaon Interactive Inc., headquartered Maynard, found its sales software increasingly helpful to businesses in the wake of COVID-19. 

Worcester and Framingham, the two most populous Central Massachusetts communities, along with four others have made a new state advisory list of communities at elevated risk for coronavirus infections.

Mill & Main, a brick mill complex in Maynard spanning more than 1 million square feet, has resigned leases with four tenants and brought in a new one.

Maynard Crossing, a mixed-use development anchored by a soon-to-open Market Basket grocery store, is adding more tenants despite a recession and ongoing economic uncertainty.

Middlesex Savings Bank of Natick plans to open a new branch in Maynard in spring 2021, the Capital Group Properties said in a statement announcing the lease agreement Monday morning.

More retail stores are on the horizon, and their success will depend on being able to find enough shops to carve out a niche in an industry always increasingly dominated by Amazon and other giants.

Maynard craft beermaker Battle Road Brewing Co. has permanently closed, according to the business’ Facebook page.

Maynard officials have signed off on a proposed retail cannabis shop, starting a process still requiring state approval and the selection of where the store will open.

Construction will unofficially begin next week on a Market Basket grocery store that will anchor the Maynard Crossing mixed-use development in Maynard.