Leominster

Private housing developers are stepping up to take on once- thriving, but now-abandoned industrial buildings that have created blight in the Central Massachusetts communities where they used to attract workers to a century ago.

Reliant Medical Group is significantly expanding its pharmacy operations in the coming weeks, when it will open 10 pharmacies at several locations throughout Central Massachusetts.

From today's print edition: It's slow and steady as it goes for the commercial office market in Central Massachusetts, reflecting much of what's happening in the broader economy, industry insiders say.

Paul D. Gilbody, the president and CEO of Leominster Credit Union, has resigned less than six months after taking the job, the credit union announced.

White Plains, N.Y.-based real estate brokerage Northeast Private Client Group has opened an office in MetroWest to serve what managing director Ed Jordan calls a burgeoning multifamily property investment market. Its new office at 945 Concord St. – just off the Mass Pike – has been open since September, and now has three staff members on board, including regional manager Colin Moynihan. Jordan said he will also spend time there to get more familiar with local clients.

Twenty-three Central Massachusetts companies are among those benefiting from $6.8 million in workforce training fund grants awarded by the Patrick administration.

New Hampshire-based Unitil Corp., which provides electricity and natural gas to a handful of communities in northern Worcester County, said it has issued rebates for 25 municipal energy efficiency projects over the past 20 months.

A Hudson-based commercial property management firm has bought a 588,000-square-foot industrial building in Leominster, part of which...

Hospitals in Central Massachusetts were among the least profitable in the state, on average, in the quarter...

The state's finance and development agency, MassDevelopment, announced it will loan nearly $3.3 million to a Leominster...