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Thursday, June 28, 2018

BJ's shares priced at $17 for NYSE listing; trading begins Thursday

Shares of BJ's Wholesale Club's common stock are expected to begin trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange at $17 per share.

A bill to keep the Pawtucket Red Sox from moving to Worcester has yet to be signed by the governor, and the team has yet to commit to staying.

Worcester seafood restaurant The Sole Proprietor will add a new kitchen as part of an overall remodel of the Highland Street eatery.

Lakeway Commons signs three leases, now at capacity

Lakeway Commons has signed three new leases, bringing the Shrewsbury shopping center to full capacity less than a year after its opening.

ReWalk Robotics expands clinical study; eyes 2019 sales

ReWalk Robotics in Marlborough hopes to offer its robotic exoskeleton suit for stroke patients by July 2019 and just got a boost as five leading U.S. research institutions have approved the company's clinical study of its device.

Hype can be a good thing, as long as you understand the difference with tangible results. You may sell the sizzle, but the customer still will want the steak.

As it becomes evident that there will be no legal recreational marijuana sales in Massachusetts in early July, advocates behind the 2016 legalization ballot question placed the blame Wednesday on municipalities and the attorney general.

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Regional Roundup

Notre Dame church 'past point of no return' (Telegram & Gazette)

Planners seek redesign of Framingham/Natick Golden Triangle (MetroWest Daily News)

New butcher shop to open in Worcester (MassLive)

Boston struggles with affordable housing vacancy (Boston Globe)

Question of the Week

Tuesday we asked: With Mustang Bio opening a biomanufacturing facility in the UMass Medicine Science Park and Chinese firm WuXi Biologics announcing plans for a $60-million facility in the Worcester Biomanufacturing Park, biotech experts like Kevin O'Sullivan from Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives are hailing Worcester as a biotech destination.

Has Worcester become a biomanufacturing destination like the Greater Boston area?

Worcester, with its past history of traditional manufacturing, is a natural fit to become the biomanufacturing hub of MA.
With LabCentral, UMass VDC, Nest Bio, BioSquare, Alexandria hosting several companies, The Broad Institute, Draper Labs, and the locations of Vertex, Biogen, Ironwood, Pfizer, Sanofi, Shire, Merck and others being in Boston or Cambridge, we have a long way to go. The players in the city know each other and people intermingle: more happening in the community in general.

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