North County

Thanks to a $4.2 loan from Eastern Bank, a biomedical device factory at Devens will be expanded by summer.

A total of $650,000 has been awarded to Barre, Berlin, Bolton, Sherborn, and Worcester under the Housing Choice Community Capital Grant program to support home construction.

Collaborative workspaces in Worcester and Fitchburg took in $200,000 in funding announced Thursday by the Gov. Charlie Baker Administration.

Leo Ma Mall LLC, a division of Hull Property Group, a shopping mall management company based in Augusta, Ga., has purchased The Mall at Whitney Field in Leominster for $16 million.

Pier 1 Imports, the imported home furnishings retailer said up to 450 of its 942 stores are under consideration for closure, but it did not name specific locations. The Texas–based company operates Central Massachusetts stores in Bellingham, Framingham, Leominster, and Shrewsbury.

Keystone Real Estate LLC, a Pepperell entity managed Robert Stanieich and Anthony Serino, bought the 12,345-square-foot industrial property at 20 Lomar Park Drive in Pepperell for $1 million.

The property housing a Price Chopper grocery store in Gardner has been bought for $11.4 million by a San Diego investment firm.

Check out who being hired and promoted in the Central Massachusetts business community.

Faced with declining patient discharge numbers and seeing a chance to pare costs that didn’t directly affect patients, UMass Memorial Health Care leaders in Worcester made a tough financial choice to cut much of its executive ranks.

A former golfing center in Lancaster being developed into a solar energy site has been bought by a Maryland green energy investment firm for nearly $3.6 million.