Retail

As the CCC works through its backlog, more marijuana stores – both recreational and medical – will open statewide, and in Central Massachusetts, in particular.

A long underutilized retail plaza on Water Street in Framingham is proposed to be demolished in favor of two three-story buildings with 158 residential units and some retail space.

Derek Canton’s smartphone app, paerpay, changing how diners see and pay their bills, has secured its first restaurant client, Boston-based Legal Sea Foods.

The new owner plans to replace the 32-year-old Greendale Mall in Worcester with a mix of retail, apartments, and office space.

Finard Properties, which developed the 9X27 Exchange shopping center in Natick, is a eyeing a mixed-use development on the Worcester mall site.

Resinate, the promised fourth marijuana shop in Worcester, can’t sell pot yet, but that didn’t stop CEO Peter DeCaro and more than 100 friends from participating in a ribbon cutting at the 6,500-square-foot Millbury Street dispensary Thursday night.

State marijuana regulators on Thursday eased their ban on vaping product sales.

A Mexican restaurant inside the Natick Mall's Wegmans grocery store — one of a few features differentiating the location from others in the chain — has closed.

Biscotto Cafe in Auburn has been given a $30,000 loan from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp.

Wormtown Brewery will open its expanded location at Patriot Place in Foxborough on Saturday.