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6 Worcester Business Journal | January 7, 2019 | wbjournal.com B R I E FS Meze to open new Shrewsbury Street eatery One of Shrewsbury Street's only vacant restaurant buildings will soon be occupied by its neighbor. Meze Greek Tapas, fresh off of obtaining alcohol and entertainment licenses from the Worcester's License Commission plans to open in a neigh- boring building in February. Panos Georgiadis, whose family owns the restaurant at 156 Shrews- bury St., said work is underway to renovate the interior of the 166 Shrewsbury St. building, which has been vacant for about a year. Georgaidies and his father pur- chased the building in September from the federal government for $525,000 after a long criminal pro- ceeding against the building's former owner, Kevin Perry. Perry was sentenced to 14 years in prison for selling opioids and other drugs and laundering those proceeds through the Usual restaurant in the 166 Shrewsbury St. space, which later became the Chameleon. Mass. home sales dip lowest since pre-2004 e number of Massachusetts single-family home and condominium sales fell year-over-year in November, while prices rose, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors reported. e 4,966 sales for the month was the lowest for any November since the association began reporting the data in 2004. Sale closings for single-family homes have now been down or flat in nine out of the last 12 months. e median sale price for a sin- gle-family home was $395,000, up 4.1 percent from the prior year. Continued from previous page T H E T I C K E R $19 million Sale price of a FedEx site in Northborough, which was purchased by a Wakefield commercial real estate firm from a Boston investor Source: Masslandrecords.com Massachusetts workers getting a pay increase as minimum wage rose to $12 on Jan. 1 662,000 Source: Massachusetts Budget & Policy Center 6 Source: Town of Uxbridge Number of cannabis businesses hoping to open in Uxbridge, including two retailers Penalties paid by Hopkinton wedding company Boston Rustic Wedding Rentals to settle wage violation allegations. $40,000 Source: Massachusetts Attorney General's Office Thank you to our clients, staff and supporters. We could not have done it without you! Best Plumber/HVAC Contractor BOB A W A R D S B E S T O F B U S I N E S S Construction of new homes is underway at the Wachusett Valley Estates in Holden.