Small Business

Worcester City Manager Ed Augustus is proposing zoning amendments for the budding legal marijuana industry to facilitate the opening of 15 retail marijuana stores, but also address a loophole allowing onsite consumption of marijuana at private clubs.

A 76,700-square-foot building on Main Street in Worcester owned by businessman Frank Carroll is for sale for $4.8 million.

The young commission's ranks grew to 10 on Tuesday morning with the announcement that former state Senate Ways and Means Committee Budget Director Adriana Campos had been hired to serve as the commission's first chief financial and administrative officer.

Social media has delivered small businesses a path around robotic marketing campaigns and a way into homes of current and prospective customers.

Marijuana legalization leaders plan on Thursday to fire back at the Baker administration's "coordinated intimidation campaign," countering what has been a 10-day shelling of the Cannabis Control Commission's draft regulations by executive agencies under the governor's control.

House Speaker Robert DeLeo said he agrees with many of the concerns Gov. Charlie Baker and his administration have raised with the Cannabis Control Commission's draft industry regulation.

Worcester officials say they were not aware a private club that opened last week on Water Street would allow the smoking of cannabis within its doors.

Two years later, many of the same groups that contested the ballot question to legalize marijuana are clashing again over the scope of the newly-legal industry, setting up the state's young regulatory agency for its most crucial decisions yet later this month.

The Summit Lounge, a members-only marijuana club, opened today on Water Street in Worcester.

Ed Hyder, who ran his popular Worcester Mediterranean market for 42 years, died from complications from chronic lymphocytic leukemia at age 67.