North County

MassDevelopment, the state’s economic development financing agency, awarded $315,175 to a developer planning to redevelop a vacant three-story building in downtown Fitchburg.

Three community health centers in Central Massachusetts have been selected among 22 centers across the state by MassDevelopment for its Community Health Center Grant Program. 

The New England Newspaper & Press Association has given nine journalism awards to Worcester Business Journal at part of the 2021 Better Newspaper Competition, honoring stories on the legacy of slavery in Central Massachusetts, housing discrimination in Worcester, and attempts to narrow racial and gender pay gaps.

Emerald Place, a roughly 26-acre apartment complex on Lake Whalom in Lunenburg, sold for $76 million on Friday, according to the Worcester North District Registry of Deeds.

Heywood Healthcare, one of the last independent community healthcare systems in Central Massachusetts, has agreed in principle to join the UMass Memorial Health system, seeking to become part of the network with facilities in Worcester, Marlborough, Leominster, Clinton and Southbridge.

The North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce announced Monday its economic development affiliate, the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp., is launching a new small business loan program. 

Worcester Business Journal began listing the most influential people in the Central Massachusetts economy in 2013, using various iterations of the concept to arrive at the Power 50, which started in 2018.

The Power 50 may not necessarily hold the most power in the region, but they are the people who most effectively wielded their power to have an outsized influence on the economy and the community within the last year.

Lighthouse Biz Solutions, LLC, a cannabis financial services subsidiary of GFA Federal Credit Union in Gardner, appointed Melissa Maranda as its new executive vice president and chief operating officer.

David Nordman, executive editor at the Telegram & Gazette, will step down at the end of May, the Worcester-based newspaper announced Tuesday.