Southborough

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.

California-based Realty Income Corp. has begun acquiring Cumberland Farms locations as part of a $1.5-billion sale-leaseback deal with United Kingdom-based EG Group.

Fitchburg State University, Creative Hub Worcester, and Southborough Historical Society were among the largest recipients of $7.6 million in Cultural Facilities Fund grants statewide from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

The sciences companies in Central Massachusetts that received venture capital funding from 2018 to 2023.

The directory is a list of organizations with a location in Central Massachusetts that support the life sciences industry, including contract research organizations, contract development and manufacturing organizations, and companies providing custom products, technologies, or other services.

Block MEMS, LLC received a $2.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop and supply advanced spectrometers for the Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division. 

The board chair of the Marlborough Regional Chamber of Commerce, Steve Messineo, will take on the role of president, after outgoing President Robert Schlacter retires at the end of March.

Despite falling prices and increasing competition, marijuana business officials across the state, and particularly in Central Massachusetts, still see the cannabis market as primed for opportunity, with operators having to be smarter about the way they operate their marijuana businesses.

Almost every MetroWest town reported fewer home sales in August compared to the same month in 2021, a trend in line with Massachusetts as a whole. 

Gauri Bhalakia, president of both ARCpoint Labs of Southboro-Framingham and ARCpoint Labs of Worcester, started the business in 2016.