Fitchburg

More retail stores are on the horizon, and their success will depend on being able to find enough shops to carve out a niche in an industry always increasingly dominated by Amazon and other giants.

A new study says there's potential for more than 18,000 extra housing units along the three commuter rail lines serving Central Massachusetts, with most in MetroWest.

CoStar Group reports Marlborough and Fitchburg saw vacancies rise in the third quarter while rents dipped.

Fitchburg has received a $3-million infrastructure grant from the state to remake Main and Boulder streets downtown, the Gov. Charlie Baker Administration announced Thursday.

The Fitchburg City Council eliminated the split-tax rate where commercial property owners pay a higher rate than residential property owners.

Fitchburg tool manufacturer Simonds Saw, which had planned to trim operations, has closed on a $5.6-million sale of its site in the city.

Fitchburg Gardens, a 79-bed nursing and rehabilitation facility at 94 Summer St., has sold for $2.5 million.

Fidelity Bank is donating its former headquarters in downtown Fitchburg to Fitchburg State University.

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.

A Harvey Building Products facility in an industrial area off Water Street in Fitchburg has sold for $3.2 million.