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Natick renewable energy company SWEB Development has received a $25-million loan from Needham Bank to complete a wind energy project in Maine, according to an announcement by the bank.

A new analysis of Mass General Brigham's proposed clinics in Westwood, Woburn and Westborough predicts that the sites will result in a "small overall decrease" in health care spending for the services they would offer.

Seattle e-commerce giant Amazon on Thursday purchased a 93-acre Westborough lot with an industrial office park for $65 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds, with plans to include at least a last-mile fulfillment center.

Station 117 Apartments, located on Dean Avenue in Franklin, sold for $129.1 million on Dec. 20, marking a rate of roughly $500,000 per unit, according to the Norfolk Registry of Deeds.

Department store Neiman Marcus sold its 94,000-square-foot unit at the Natick Mall for $12.6 million to Boston real estate firm The Bulfinch Cos., according to real estate database CoStar.

Two apartment complexes in Northborough totaling 15 units sold for $2.8 million to an entity registered to Subrahmanyam Kota, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

Framingham State University on Thursday named Nancy Niemi as its eighth president, replacing outgoing President Javier Cevallos, who announced his retirement last March, according to a press release from the school.

Marlborough medical device manufacturer Hologic, Inc. on Thursday announced its Panther Trax device passed a series of regulatory tests making it commercially available in international markets.

Framingham-based Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing Company announced on Wednesday the upcoming release of Everyday Lager, a beer crafted to encourage patronage of restaurants impacted by the pandemic.  

Rentschler Biopharma, a global contract development and manufacturing organization with offices in Germany and Milford, announced on Monday it has been named among “Germany's most attractive employers” by the F.A.Z. Institute, a German market management institution.