Retail

Friendly's is closing its Holden and Framingham restaurants among 23 corporate-owned locations across the Northeast, leaving seven stores in Central Massachusetts.

A week after starting talks with Leicester, marijuana retailer Cultivate has begun negotiations with Uxbridge for a cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facility of up to 130,000 square feet.

The Hingham development company and owner of the former Elwood Adams Hardware building in Worcester is seeking a tax-increment financing exemption for the housing project.

The Worcester Redevelopment Authority is giving the Midtown Mall owner 30 days to submit a detailed written plan on his plans to rehabilitate the Front Street buildings.

Leicester-based cannabis firm Cultivate, one of the first two shops to launch sales on the East Coast, has begun negotiations with Framingham for a host community agreement.

After a quarter century, Staples' logo is out. Gone is the slanted L, and in is a more literal illustration of the company's name: an actual staple.

Wyman-Gordon is planning two new buildings totaling 21,600 square feet to consolidate operations to make way for the planned Worcester Red Sox ballpark and related development.

Leicester cannabis firm Cultivate is planning a 130,000-square-foot cultivation facility in a new business park in Uxbridge.

Wyman-Gordon and Boston developer Madison Downtown Holdings have closed on a $6.1-million sale of land needed to help develop the $101-million ballpark for the Worcester Red Sox.

A commercial plaza on West Main Street in Northborough has sold for more than $2.1 million to the owner of AA Transportation of Shrewsbury.