The Holden Area Chamber of Commerce is hoping to attract new member businesses from neighboring towns through a name change its board of directors approved last week.
Business tenants looking for commercial office space often look to MetroWest as an affordable alternative to Boston that's still highly accessible and close to all the right amenities.
The state's finance and development agency MassDevelopment is seeking a developer to build up to 120 residences in Devens, the 4,400-acre regional enterprise zone it oversees.
One in every 20 households in Harvard is now generating solar power as part of a state program that subsidizes the installation of solar panels.
That's according to Mark Durrenberger, president of Hudson-based New England Clean Energy, formerly New England Breeze Solar, which handled more than 80 percent of the installations over the past two years.
Twenty-three Central Massachusetts companies are among those benefiting from $6.8 million in workforce training fund grants awarded by the Patrick administration.