Transportation

Marlborough discount retailer BJ’s Wholesale Club’s plans to open 11 new stores by the end of the fiscal year remain on track.

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts dropped by two -tenths of a percentage point for the second month in a row in July, hitting 3.5%, matching the national rate.

Led by Worcester manufacturing tech firm Solvus Global, 19 Central Massachusetts firms made the 2022 Inc. 5000, a national list of the fastest growing companies from the New York City magazine.

The average price of a gallon of unleaded gasoline in Massachusetts dropped another 10 cents, following an 11-cent drop last week.

Top Democrats are disappointed in Gov. Charlie Baker's proposal to alter the MBTA reporting and electrification requirements marbled into an $11.3 billion bond bill, arguing that the changes "will delay our progress towards our long-term transportation and climate goals."

MBTA electrification and safety reporting requirements feature as the most prominent parts of an infrastructure bond bill Gov. Charlie Baker wants to change with an amendment he returned to the Legislature.

Continuing a downward trend, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in Massachusetts fell to $4.35 per gallon, a drop of 11 cents.

An entity registered to the owners of Piece by Piece Movers of Boston has acquired a 4-acre property including a 67,000 square-foot warehouse at 241 Willard St. in Leominster for $7.2 million.

A Westborough manufacturing company plans to invest up to $1 billion for a new, 500,000-square-foot production facility it plans to open in Kentucky.

A 267,000-square-foot Class A warehouse will be constructed on a plot of land at 90 Huntoon Memorial Highway in Leicester.