MetroWest

A cannabis company with a MetroWest medical facility officially has the "best grass in Mass." Bountiful Farms, an independent cannabis cultivator with a medical dispensary in Natick and recreational product sold through several different retail partners, has won first place in the flower category at the Massachusetts Cultivator's Cup.

John C. C. Fan, the founder of Westborough-based Kopin Corp., has officially stepped down as the company's CEO and named his successor.

Medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific Corp., based in Marlborough, has received authorization to expand instructions for use labeling for its WATCHMAN FLX Left Atrial Appendage Closure device.

Miach Orthopaedics Inc., a Westborough firm specializing in surgical implants for connective tissue repair, has appointed Patrick McBrayer as president and CEO, the company announced on Wednesday.

On Friday, LIV Golf, headquartered in Palm Beach, Florida, announced which nonprofits would receive funding from the company as part of its inaugural tournament in Massachusetts at the International Golf Club in Bolton.

Avenu at Natick, an ages-62-and-up apartment community, was sold to developer and property manager, Greystar Real Estate Partners of Charleston, South Carolina for $86.5 million.

Ameresco, the Framingham-based renewable energy company, said Wednesday that it completed a new solar project on a former Illinois brownfield site. 

New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill in Boylston received a $70,559 grant from Massachusetts’ Greening the Gateway Cities Program to plant 100 trees in Worcester and conduct outreach to residents, businesses, and non-profit organizations in the Main South, Grafton Hill, and Bell Hill neighborhoods.

SK ecoplant, the environmental division of Korean holding company SK Inc., has made a $50 million investment in Westborough’s Ascend Elements to help commercialize the firm’s trademarked Hydro-to-Cathode direct precursor synthesis process technology, Ascend announced on Thursday.

The owner of 39 Lamartine St., the former site of Worcester Electrical Associates Inc., is seeking to have the property included in a commercial corridor overlay, which would allow for certain advantages in development.