Wayland

MassDevelopment made 18 grants totalling more than $1.5 million to businesses, cities, towns, and nonprofit organizations in Central Mass.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has selected Tony Laing into its newly created role of assistant vice president for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging on a full-time basis.

A developer has proposed a 200-unit 40B housing project at the site of a former Whole Foods Market grocery store in Wayland.

The Boston-based real estate advisory and investment firm Senné is launching a Wayland office.

Housing authorities in Central Massachusetts brought in more than $9 million in federal funding announced Tuesday for public housing improvements.

Eight transportation initiatives in Central Massachusetts aimed at helping people get around during the coronavirus pandemic have won a combined $330,000 in state funding.

The Gov. Charlie Baker Administration announced this fall 13 Central Massachusetts communities would split $1.25 million in Shared Streets and Spaces emergency grants, in order to make roads more pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly, part of $10 million handed out statewide.

While Bay State home sales increased by less than 1% and median single-family sales price rose 3.5% in October, Worcester, Framingham, Leominster, and Marlborough bucked the trend.

Yong Han Koo of Weston, who owns Wayland Oral Surgery, has purchased for $2.35 million the medical office building in Wayland town center housing his business.

Wayland medical device maker Candela Corp. has settled a patent infringement lawsuit with California-based InMode.