Retail

Pretty soon, two of the Massachusetts most sinful industries will compete for the same kind of customers.

The sprawling 1-million-square-foot Draper Complex and about 80 acres of land in Hopedale is on the market after nearly 40 years of the property sitting vacant.

Almost 8,000 low-income students are on a waiting list for after-school and summer learning, according to a report recommending tapping the anticipated revenue from marijuana sales.

City Manager Edward Augustus will ask the Worcester City Council on Tuesday for authorization to spend $32.5 million to build a new Canal District parking garage.

Marijuana regulators on Thursday approved two testing laboratories to inspect recreational marijuana sold in Massachusetts and approved a host of licenses for other Central Mass. cannabis businesses.

Union Station is in a transitional period as it works to lure new state offices and works through a turnover in retail tenants, the chairman of the Worcester Redevelopment Authority said Friday.

Milford-based Sira Naturals and four other U.S. companies are being acquired by a Canadian cannabis acquisition firm.

The New York City-based iAnthus Capital Holdings, the parent company of a Holliston-based marijuana grower Mayflower Medicinals, has merged with Toronto cannabis firm MPX Bioceutical Corp.

New England Treatment Access, a Franklin marijuana grower and seller, is expanding its already-sprawling growing and manufacturing space and working to add a retail store.

Sudbury Crossing, a T.J.Maxx-anchored retail plaza on Route 20 in Sudbury has sold for just under $19 million.