North County

New York-based Northeast Grocery, Inc., parent company of Price Chopper and Market 32 supermarkets, has named John Persons as the company’s new chief operating officer and Mike Miller as chief administrative officer, both newly-created positions at the company.

After opening a new facility in Boylston, a Sutton manufacturing company that is a joint venture of the Kraft Group has purchased a lot in an under-development industrial park in Westminster for $7.4 million.

Leominster-based public relations firm empHowered PR is opening its second location at the Worcester Idea Lab on Franklin Street, its first move beyond its North Central Massachusetts headquarters.

The Fitchburg Public Library will receive $1.5 million from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners to help offset rising construction costs on the $40-million construction and renovation project.

Less than a month after removing its CEO, Heywood Hospital in Gardner is pausing construction on its surgical pavilion.

Maugel DeStefano Architects announced completion of a 4,200 square-foot medical office suite for Orthopedic Affiliates Joint & Sports Medicine Center and Achieve Physical Therapy.

Students at Fitchburg State University will soon be able to complete a bachelor of arts in international business at Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences in Kleve, Germany.

An affiliate of Harvard-based North Atlantic Concrete purchased a 4.75 acre lot in Ayer for $1 million.

The first half of 2023 was a difficult one for home buyers and for real estate agents as single-family home sales cratered and home prices plateaued high above pre-COVID levels.

After the first half of 2023 rocked the banking world and as uncertainty clouds the economic future, Central Mass. bankers are staying the course.