Southborough

The scientific founder of a Southborough startup pharmaceutical company has landed a $3.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to help develop a drug to treat traumatic brain injury and concussions. 

A 204,000-square-foot warehouse in Southborough and Marlborough has sold to a California investment firm for nearly $33.3 million. 

Just 1% of venture capital in Massachusetts in the past five years has come to Worcester County. But colleges, incubators and others are working to make up the difference.

Worcester Regional Airport has an economic impact of $97 million, according to a study released last month by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

Olympus is planning to relocate Southborough and Littleton workers in Westborough, and two others are planning new facilities in Hopkinton and Marlborough.

Southborough cloud-based scientific software firm Arxspan has been acquired by the publicly traded scientific equipment firm Bruker Corp., based in Billerica.

Women continue to be vastly outnumbered by men at Central Mass. public companies, though improvement has been found in some areas.

Two luxury apartment complexes in Southborough and Shrewsbury, built by the same developer between 2010 and 2013, have been sold to a Stoneham property management firm for a combined $77 million.

A Market Basket grocery store will anchor the Maynard Crossing mixed-use development just south of the town center, giving the chain its latest location in Central Massachusetts.

Communities have often used tax deals to help companies in what officials say is the most important tool they can use in economic development.