Millis

As candlepin bowling undergoes a bit of a renaissance in Central Massachusetts, a Millis bowling alley was the site of a new world record game.

Both communities were opened in 2023 by Anthology, a senior living company based in Chicago, and offer independent living, assisted living, and memory care services.

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.

Millis cannabis firm CommCan is consolidating its operations, having closed its medical-only Southborough dispensary and transferred that license to a joint adult-use and medical dispensary in Rehoboth.

Despite falling prices and increasing competition, marijuana business officials across the state, and particularly in Central Massachusetts, still see the cannabis market as primed for opportunity, with operators having to be smarter about the way they operate their marijuana businesses.

Millis vertical farming company, Crop One Holdings, Inc. and New York-based Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have received a $1.5 million cost-matching grant from the nonprofit Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research in Washington D.C. to fund research of plant-based protein.

Millis-based agriculture company, Crop One Holdings, Inc., is building a 316,000 square foot vertical farm in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. It is expected to open in 2024.

MassDevelopment, the state’s development agency, issued a $16.5-million tax-exempt bond to Attleboro autism services nonprofit Amego Inc., to buy 16 facilities, including seven in Central Massachusetts.

The Commonwealth Cannabis Co. of Millis, more commonly known as CommCan, will become the cultivation, manufacturing and distribution partner for San Francisco cannabis, CBD and non-hallucinogenic mushroom company Cookies.

The popular blog Barstool Sports, originally founded in Massachusetts but now headquartered in New York City, has provided financial relief to four Central Mass. businesses.