North County

A Market Basket grocery store will anchor the Maynard Crossing mixed-use development just south of the town center, giving the chain its latest location in Central Massachusetts.

Acreage Holdings, a national cannabis giant with a medical dispensary in Worcester, says its proposed Super Bowl advertisement advocating for equal access to medical marijuana was denied by CBS.

Former Guinness brewmaster Fergal Murray is back in Massachusetts to work with the 25-year brewing veterans at Wachusett Brewing Co. in Westminster.

Sterling-based electrical contractor D.M.H. Electrical Contractors has completed an employee stock ownership plan and is now 100-percent owned by the ESOP.

Sell a good product. Make sure the product your employee is trying to sell is reputable, this makes her/his job easy.

A hit-or-miss nature has been an unavoidable part of communities' use of business tax breaks over the last two decades, a WBJ review shows.

For neighborhoods in Central Massachusetts overlooked by developers, there's a potential salvation: a new federal tax incentive program.

Communities have often used tax deals to help companies in what officials say is the most important tool they can use in economic development.

Leominster-based Fidelity Bank and Pittsfield-based Berkshire Bank are offering their help until the government is opened.

Fitchburg has received $60,000 and Worcester $65,000 for economic development initiatives through the state's Urban Agenda Grant Program.