Worcester Business Journal

wbjournal.com | September 22, 2025 | Worcester Business Journal 7 Start now Good leadership heals cultures and drives results Start with our science-backed 360° leadership assessment and/or culture audit to unlock what's blocking your impact Then build the leadership and culture-repair strategy and practices your organization needs on repeat every day We can lead everyone. We succeed when our people do. You have mastered technical excellence and delivered measurable results. Yet today's challenges of fractured trust, competing risks, and hard change demand leadership clarity. Equip yourself to LEAD, not be led, through the challenges Heal cultures. Lead with courage. It's good business. www.promotinggoodllc.com those who prefer a partner to finance and develop the hydrogen plant so they can remain focused on their business outcomes," Raffi Garabedian, CEO and co-founder of Electric Hydrogen, said in the press release. State auctions off four properties to housing developers for $2M Hoping to boost housing production in the state, the Gov. Maura Healey Administration has auctioned off four Central Massachusetts state-owned properties to private developers to con- vert the sites into housing. State-owned properties in Westbor- ough, Northborough, Templeton, and Phillipston were auctioned Setp. 10 in the first of a series of auctions under Healey's State Land for Homes initiative, which seeks to turn underutilized state parcels into housing developments. e four properties sold were: Lyman St., Westborough, a 5.84-acre property containing a mix of open fields and trees sold for $1.13 million; 0 Lyman St., Northborough, located about a half-mile north of the Westborough site, this 5.45-acre site sold for $550,000; 0 Royalston Road, Templeton, a former group home located on a 5.8-acre parcel sold for $265,000; 461 Freight Shed Road, Phillipston, a former group home located on a 4.6-acre parcel sold for $80,000. A 2.5-acre wooded parcel in Wilm- ington was also included in this round of auctions, selling for $625,000, accord- ing to a Sep. 12 press release from the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance, which worked with JJ Manning Auctioneers of Yarmouth to sell the sites. e buyers of the sites have a 30-day due diligence period, and their identi- ties have not been revealed yet. "is auction is an important mile- stone in our efforts to make state-owned land available for housing develop- ment, so we can get more reasonably priced homes built more quickly in this state," Gov. Maura Healey said in the press release. "I'm proud of the team at DCAMM for the progress they have been making on our State Land for Homes Initiative." $3.3 million Sale price of the property containing the The Sonesta Select Boston Milford hotel, purchased by the Newton firm Service Properties Trust as part of a three-hotel, $36-million deal Source: CoStar Feb. 28 Date when comedian Jerry Seinfeld will perform two shows at The Hanover Theatre in Worcester Source: The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts One to three years Prison sentence for Worcester resident Felix Mercedes, who pled guilty on Sept. 11 to being the ringleader of a $500,000 MassHealth scheme to steal personal information from disabled, elderly, and unhoused individuals Source: Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General Size of the Ocean State Job Lot store in Westborough following a 2,700-square-foot expansion to make it one of the five largest among OSJL's 176 locations Source: Ocean State Job Lot 40,000 sq. ft. Continued from previous page W

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