Sudbury

The Herb Chambers Cos., the Somerville-based automotive retail and service firm with ten locations in Central Massachusetts, has finalized its sale to Atlanta-based Asbury Automotive Group for $1.45 billion.

The plan to modify the property to accommodate the school was approved by the Sudbury Planning Board during its June 26 meeting.

Twenty-three Central Massachusetts businesses made the 2024 Inc. 5000, an annual list of the nation’s 5000 fastest-growing companies compiled by Inc. magazine.

Boston-based automotive dealership Herb Chambers has opened its relocated Sudbury Mercedes-Benz dealership featuring an updated and enhanced aesthetic aimed at providing a more luxurious experience for shoppers. 

Developers and business owners expect that growth to continue, saying new businesses and even more residents will soon make the area home, creating the next chapter in the long history of the Canal District.

Methods Machine Tools named Richard Alton, formerly of Wisconsin-based Manitou Americas, as its new CEO.

Sudbury-based commercial scale solar developer Gridwealth will build 16 new commercial-scale rooftop projects in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, after closing $30 million in financing from Fidelity Bank in Leominster.

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.

The Town of Berlin has purchased three parcels of land from the Sudbury Valley Trustees to complete its purchase of Horseshoe Pond at Mount Pisgah.

The Town of Boxborough, working with the Sudbury Valley Trustees and the Boxborough Conservation Trust, purchased 95 & 105 Sargent Road in Boxborough, for $1.25 million.