Retail

Granite Heights Marketplace on Fortune Boulevard in Milford, home to Staples and Petco retail locations, was sold to an affiliate of Mendon’s Meehan Realty Management Corp. for $10.3 million.

Long-awaited regulations on the sale of pork products in Massachusetts will launch in less than three weeks under a new legal agreement between state officials and industry groups.

Milford construction contractor Consigli Building Group is the largest employee-owned company based in Central Massachusetts, according to a first-time list produced by the WBJ Research Department for the 2023 Book of Lists.

A Northborough shopping plaza at 292 Main St. was sold on Friday for $2.65 million.

Millennial couple Courtney and Tyler Galicia took the plunge earlier this year and opened the doors to their first business: the independent bookstore A Great Notion.

Pickleball, a racket sport played on a scaled-down tennis court with a plastic ball and paddles, has been the subject of much media attention and growing popularity. Soon, Central Massachusetts will have its own indoor pickleball venue in West Boylston.

New York real estate investment company Rabina obtained $13.5 million to refinance its 210,000-square-foot distribution center at 26 Millbury St. in Auburn.

New Jersey-based Seabra Foods has purchased a former Salvation Army location at 35 Concord St. in Framingham for a new supermarket location, across from the newly-constructed 196-apartment Union House.

A weekly outdoor market will bring handmade and vintage goods, a farmers market, and entertainment to the courtyard at The Glass Tower in Downtown Worcester beginning on July 22.

The Retailers Association of Massachusetts is preparing for a majority of its members to either retire or sell their small businesses in the next decade, and the trade group's president said Wednesday that local franchise operations are going to be "key" to the future success of the small business sector.