North County

The owner of a Central Massachusetts limousine service has bought the Leitrim Pub on Park Avenue, according to a firm that helped broker the sale for owners Michael Coonan and Kevin Lenihan.

Devens-based AMSC said it will sell high-temperature superconductor (HTS) wire to Nexans, a French provider of cables and cabling systems. Nexans will use the wire as part of a type of surge protector for a project designed to replace high-voltage equipment in inner cities with superconductor systems.

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.

Framingham-based Avery Dennison RBIS, a $1.5-billion division of California-based Avery Dennison, said it will expand its relationship with a major food and apparel retailer in the United Kingdom.

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.

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.

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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.

Devens-based AMSC, formerly American Superconductor, said it has received an order for its D-VAR system from a company helping Chinese utility providers improve power quality.