MetroWest

Southborough-based Block Engineering named photonics veteran Steven Buckley as its new president.

Aspen Aerogels has completed construction on its 59,000-square-foot engineering and rapid prototyping facility in Marlborough. The company held a ribbon cutting ceremony at the site on Wednesday.

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.

Barnes & Noble’s newest MetroWest location will open in Natick on June 14, filling the void left when the chain’s Framingham store closed earlier this year.

Manufacturing company Kopin elected director James Brewington as its new chairman of the board, replacing company founder John Fan.

AquaBounty Technologies, a Maynard-based salmon-farming company, has paused construction on its planned 479,000-square-foot Pioneer, Ohio fish farm, because of an increase in projected construction costs.

The 134,000-square-foot, multi-level Wegmans supermarket at the Natick Mall will close later this summer.

Milford Regional Medical Center is breaking ground on a new satellite location in Medway, its newest community-based facility.

Trulieve, a Florida-based cannabis company with dispensaries in Worcester, Framingham, and Northampton, will close all three of those operations on June 30.