Northborough

While the economy was growing into the longest economic expansion in the nation’s history, most Worcester County neighborhoods missed out – not only failing to capture rising income and attracting new residents but even going backward in many cases.

Houston real estate development and management company McCord has its sights set on the MetroWest life sciences market with a recently acquired Northborough industrial building.

A 30,000-square-foot medical office building on Route 20 in Northborough has sold for $3.1 million to a Cambridge buyer.

A Houston-based real estate development and management company has paid nearly $3.4 million for a 59,000-square-foot industrial building in Northborough.

An unusually large share of coronavirus deaths in Worcester County — nearly four out of five — have taken place in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, according to state data.

The New England Futbol Club bought 6.43 acres of industrial land at 400 Cedar Hill St. in Northborough for $1.5 million in a sale closed earlier this week, according to an announcement from Aho Properties of Arlington, which represented the seller. 

Stephen Murphy, the director of training at Worcester human services nonprofit Open Sky Community Services, retired after 38 years on June 30, the Worcester organization announced on Tuesday.

As the Massachusetts continues to reopen its economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, UMass Memorial Health Care is offering to do group testing for businesses’ employees at five Central Massachusetts locations.

Wholesale tire distributor Max Finkelstein Inc., headquartered in New York City, will lease a 106,000-square-foot distribution space at 150 Hayes Memorial Drive in Northborough, according to a press release from Worcester real estate brokerage firm NAI Glickman Kovago & Jacobs.

MassEcon, the Family Health Center of Worcester, the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, Reliant Medical Group, the Mass. Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and Central One Federal Credit Union all saw personnel moves.