Westborough

Samuels & Associates, a Boston-based real estate developer, is proposing a four-building life sciences park at the former BJ’s Wholesale Club headquarters in Westborough.

The move applies to all Reliant locations, which span across Worcester County and the MetroWest area. The move comes in the wake of staffing shortages at the group, a problem augmented across the healthcare industry by the COVID-19 pandemic.

People's United Financial Inc., a Bridgeport, Conn.-based financial holding company with seven bank branches in Central Massachusetts, is now owned by Buffalo, N.Y.-based M&T Bank Corp., after a $8.3-billion acquisition was completed over the weekend.

Mass General Brigham officials said Friday the hospital system has withdrawn its controversial proposal to build outpatient care centers in Woburn and Westborough and to expand an existing facility in Westwood after learning Department of Public Health staff would not recommend approval of the projects.

Now, in its seventh year, the Manufacturing Excellence Awards seeks to accentuate the top performers in a highly complex and varied industry.

Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider in New York will create a 75-mile expansion of high-count fiber down the I-90 corridor to improve MetroWest internet connectivity.

The Town of Westborough has once again begun the process of trying to find a new purpose for its vacant Regal Cinemas movie theater.

Spectrum Internet, a communications technology provider affiliated with Charter Communications, Inc., has doubled the starting download speed of its internet service from 100 to 200 Mbps throughout its Central Mass. locations, according to a Tuesday press release.

Westborough-based Ascend Elements, a lithium ion battery recycling and manufacturing company, was selected by SK Battery America, a Korean-owned motor vehicle manufacturer with a facility in Georgia, to recycle the company’s manufacturing scrap.

Among the hires and promotions in this edition of Movers & Shakers are those at Fletcher Tilton, Open Sky Community Services, AXIOM Learning Solutions, and AAFCPAs.