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6 Worcester Business Journal | March 18, 2019 | wbjournal.com B R I E FS Continued from Page 5 800,000 Square feet of footprint increase expected for Oxford manufacturer IPG Photonics in 2019 Source: IPG Photonics Weight the average person in Worcester County needs to lose in order to be healthy 52 lbs. Source: Dietspotlight. $4.2 billion Source: Boston Scientific Purchase price of British medical device manufacturer BTG, which specializes in cancer and vascular diseases, by Marlborough-based Boston Scientific T H E T I C K E R The median price of a home put under sale agreement in Massachusetts in February $375,950 Source: Massachusetts Association of Realtors Holy Cross begins demoli- tion for $30M center e College of the Holy Cross has be- gun demolishing its field house to make way for a new $30-million recreation and wellness center. e new facility will be called the Joanne Chouinard-Luth Recreation and Wellness Center. Chouinard-Luth is the wife of John Luth, a 1974 Holy Cross graduate. e couple has donated $40 million, the largest in the college's history, with $25 million having gone toward expansion of the Hart Center, known as the Hart Center at the Luth Athletic Complex. Table Talk breaks ground on cold-store facility Worcester dessert manufacturer Table Talk Pies has broken ground on a 27,000-square-foot cold-store facility next to its Southgate Street facility. e freezer building will help central- ize storage of ingredients and finished goods rather than store products at off-site facilities in Uxbridge, Westfield, Worcester and Philadelphia. Montachusett Home Care names new CEO Leominster-based Montachusett Home Care Corp. has named its longtime Chief Financial Officer Lori Richardson as its new CEO following the retirement of its former chief in December. e company's board of directors on Feb. 27 named Richardson to the post aer she spent 12 years managing the organization's finances. Prior to Monta- chusett, Richard- son was the chief business officer at Anna Maria College in Paxton. She holds a bachelor's degree in management from UMass Dartmouth, a master's degree in business adminis- tration from Nichols College in Dudley and a certificate of advanced studies in business from Anna Maria College. She serves as an adjunct faculty mem- ber teaching courses in aging services at UMass Boston. Lori Richardson, CEO, Montachusett Home Care